News Pwn2Own competitors crack Chrome, Firefox, IE and Java

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gareth Halfacree, 8 Mar 2013
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  2. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    Firefox have already patched this exploit, same goes for Chrome AFAIK.
     
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  3. RichCreedy

    RichCreedy Hey What Who

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    and in doing so so quickly have probably introduced new exploits
     
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  4. Ending Credits

    Ending Credits Bunned

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    What about Opera?
     
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  5. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    I wouldn't call it quickly, they received the technical details on Wednesday evening.
    If anything this news article is days old.
     
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  6. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Days? The competition started on Wednesday night (GMT) and won't end until tonight. The only reason I'm publishing now is because I don't post on Saturdays, and Monday is too far away for it to be relevant.

    (However, I did spot that the article had an early draft of the final sentence in place, which didn't include the results for Flash and Adobe Reader - I've now corrected that.)

    The contest only puts up prize money for major browsers, and unfortunately Opera doesn't count: it has under 4 per cent of the market and dropping.
     
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  7. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    Corky42, 8 Mar 2013
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  8. leexgx

    leexgx CPC hang out zone (i Fix pcs i do )

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    to bad really as its an good browser (opera)

    I use both chrome and opera, opera been the main browser for the most part
     
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  9. fargo

    fargo What's a Dremel?

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    what about waterfox 64 bit browser just installed it and works great !!
     
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  10. Jester_612

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    This, except a component keeps crashing in it, and I've not worked it out.
     
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