Pwn2Own: the 4 major browsers hacked – Gridam

On the occasion of Pwn2Own, a competition that aims to detect the vulnerabilities, web browsers were put to the test.

With the multitude of security systems and other technologies that companies have developed, you would think that we can confidently surf the web. But if the hackers really want to see what is done online, the task is far from impossible. For proof, at the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition, held last week in Vancouver, the four major browsers (Safari, Firefox, IE, Google Chrome) have been hacked.

Three Web browsers – 11 IE, Chrome, and Safari – have been brought to its knees by a single person, a South Korean security expert, Jung Hoon Lee. Known under the pseudonym “lokihardt” he was first attacked a beta version of Chrome before shaking Safari and Internet Explorer. Jung Hoon Lee has won 225,000 dollars, almost half of the gains involved in the competition.

During the Pwn2Own contest, organized by Hewlett-Packard and Google, faults were also detected in Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash.