Google’s Chrome Starts To Shine & Shine
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Yesterday I wrote about how at CanSecWest, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer were all hacked in a matter of seconds. Yes folks, that is seconds, not minutes or hours. But after 24 hours at the event, Google’s Chrome with stood the hackers tools. What makes Google the king of browsers? It seems it is Google’s sandbox feature.
According to one report over at ARS, the article states that:
A recent contest at CanSecWest, an event that brings together some of the most skilled experts in the security community, has demonstrated that the three most popular browser are susceptible to security bugs despite the vigilance and engineering prowess of their creators. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all exploited during the Pwn2Own competition that took place at the conference. Google’s Chrome browser, however, was the only one left standing—a victory that security researchers attribute to its innovative sandbox feature.
The contest awards security researchers with hardware and cash prizes for finding efficient ways to trick browsers into executing arbitrary code. During the first day of the competition, the contestants are required to do this in default browser installations without plugins such as Flash or Java, which are commonly used as vectors for attacks. Researchers typically prepare for the event far in advance by finding zero-day exploits ahead of time.
Early this month, prior champion Charlie Miller told reporters that he would be attempting to exploit a Safari vulnerability on Mac OS X. Safari, he said, would be the first to succumb to the contestants. As he promised, Safari went down first: he was able to execute his prepared hack in only a matter of seconds. Another security expert known only as Nils took longer, but was able to successfully exploit all three of the most popular browsers.
If Google’s Chrome is impervious to attack, shouldn’t we all be using it instead of the other browsers?
Makes sense to me. What about you?
Comments welcome.
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the oracle
March 20th, 2009
at 6:26pm
Strange that I read nothing about Opera, either good or bad in a couple of articles about this. I wonder why.
Jeff
March 20th, 2009
at 10:05pm
It still doesn’t stop you from advertisements and the likes. Personally no script and adblock are hard to beat. Basic browsers are naked. add in some internet security software and a few extensions and boom, fortress.
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Ron Schenone
March 21st, 2009
at 6:29am
Hi Mark,
No clue as to why Opera is not being tested.
Heh Jeff,
Good point. But since Google is in the advertising business I doubt we will see adblocker.
Wolfhard
March 23rd, 2009
at 5:00am
Google Chrome is Open Source - code your own adblocker and publish it
Ron Schenone
March 23rd, 2009
at 9:21am
Wolfhard,
Good point. I’m sure someone may do this for Chrome. Or should I say, hopefully an adblocker will be written for Chrome.
EarRings
March 23rd, 2009
at 9:54am
What happened to Opera?
rob snell
March 31st, 2009
at 4:52am
We’ve only just moved from IE to Firefox but Chrome looks worth a try for security aspects alone
Ron Schenone
March 31st, 2009
at 5:32am
Hi Rob,
If you do try Chrome, let me know what you think.
Regards, Ron
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