Chrome OS holds firm against hackers at Pwnium 3

March 12, 2013

The Pwn2Own 2013 and Pwnium 3 hacking competitions may have both taken place in the same locale last week—specifically, the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, B.C.—but the differences in their outcomes could not have been more striking. HP Security Research BlogHackers were the winners in this year's Pwn2Own competition. Pwn2Own 2013, held by HP’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), focused on browsers and browser plug-ins this year, and it was a scene of widespread figurative bloodshed (see results at right) for the software being tested. In Google's concurrent Pwnium 3, on the other hand, it was the hackers who were defeated, unable as they were to crack Google's Linux-based Chrome OS operating system. $3.14159 million in prizes To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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