Hmm don't if this has been posted elsewhere, and if not why is it not in the news section. At least I find it rather interesting: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog...-firefox-taken-down-by-four-zero-day-exploits Apparently Chrome is the hardest to exploit, due to it's sandbox nature...
I think that later in the competition (tomorrow?) they install java and flash, which should make chrome easier to hack...
what makes you think that a text based browser is any safer than the ones tested and broken at this competition?
I'm pretty sure IE1 would be very safe to use. After all there's nothing to hack, really. It doesn't even know about cookies, only super basic HTML. I think even IE2 would be pretty safe, the first security hole was discovered in IE3.
I think it's more likely to be safe due to the fact that no one would ever expect you to use it, hence no one would bother writing an exploit for it
But you can't exploit anything in it.. I mean, there just are not functions that you could exploit! It's like trying to hack into a banana!
hehe true on the other hand they probably said that about several incarnations of IE/FF/ect Hmm hacking a banana no fair now you made me hungry....
If it seems like no browser is safe, then that would be because no browser is safe. By its very nature, browser security will always lag behind exploits. How many and how serous depends on well the software was designed in the first place and the level of reward for successfully finding one, but there will always be exploits. Keeping your browser up to date and common sense are the best defence.
