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Russian works around sandbox to pull off Chrome exploit
Thursday, 08 March 2012 20:08
The winning entry was part of the inaugural Pwnium contest, in which Google is offering up to $1 million in prizes for bug hunters who can find a way to defeat its browser's much-vaunted sandbox architecture[1]. The competition occurs at the annual CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia and coincides with the well-known Pwn2Own contest, run by HP TippingPoint.
The only Pwnium victor so far has been Sergey Glazunov, a student who is a longtime contributor to Chromium and a winner of
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