Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE – All Browsers Hacked at Pwn2Own Competition [View all]

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http://thehackernews.com/2015/03/browser-hacked-pwn2own.html

The Annual Pwn2Own Hacking Competition 2015 held in Vancouver is over and participants from all over the world nabbed $557,500 in bug bounties for 21 critical bugs in top four web browsers as well as Windows OS, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash.

During the second and final day of this year’s hacking contest, the latest version of all the four major browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari, were compromised by the two security researchers.

Sponsored by HP's Zero Day Initiative program, the Pwn2Own Hacking Competition ran two days at a security conference in Vancouver, Canada. The final highlights for Pwn2Own 2015 are quite impressive:

5 bugs in the Windows operating system
4 bugs in Internet Explorer 11
3 bugs in Mozilla Firefox
3 bugs in Adobe Reader
3 bugs in Adobe Flash
2 bugs in Apple Safari
1 bug in Google Chrome
$557,500 USD bounty paid out to researchers