Chrome OS thwarts attack attempts in Pwnium challenge

[Clive]

Hackers at a please-hack-me contest at the CanWest security conference in Vancouver, BC, went home empty-handed. The contest during the Vancouver three-day conference on digital security ended up with enlightened participants capable of attempts nonetheless missing out on a massive pile of cash—the bounty was $3.14159 million—the reward for their efforts if successful. They were unable to break into Google's Chrome OS. This Pwnium 3 contest invited hackers to penetrate any holes they could find in the Chrome operating system.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-chrome-os-thwarts-pwnium.html#jCp

[Simon]

Guess that's good for Chrome. 

[Clive]

Go on, you know you want to...

[Simon]

 

[Gary]

Since Chrome OS is really a dumb terminal almost its not surprising. Great machine till you need to do something with it...

[Simon]

Since Chrome OS is really a dumb terminal almost its not surprising. Great machine till you need to do something with it...

Some would say it suits the operator - only some, mind.   

[Technical Ben]

Perhaps no one told the Hackers this PC was not connected to the net?

(Chrome being a cloud based OS, thus impossible to hack offline. )

[gizmo71]

the bounty was $3.14159 million

I'd like a slice of that pi(e)... (Yes, back to food again!)

[Simon]

[Clive]

Some would say it suits the operator - only some, mind.   

[Simon]

 

[pctech]

So the cry from Google, MS and the like will be 'buy this device dependent on our cloud and be totally secure' except don't expect to use your device if our data centres go down http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,30586.new.html#new