Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards

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Every year, browser vendors patch their browsers ahead of the annual HP Pwn2own browser hacking competition in a bid to prevent exploitation. The sad truth is that it's never enough. This year, security researchers were able to exploit fully patched versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Apple Safari (http://www.eweek.com/security/hp-awards-240k-for-firefox-ie-chrome-and-safari-exploits.html) in record time. For their efforts, HP awarded researchers $557,500. Is it reasonable to expect browser makers to hold their own in an arms race against exploits? "Every year, we run the competition, the browsers get stronger, but attackers react to changes in defenses by taking different, and sometimes unexpected, approaches," Brian Gorenc manager of vulnerability research for HP Security Research said.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/03/20/1527251/every-browser-hacked-at-pwn2own-2015-hp-pays-out-557500-in-awards