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Security researcher bags $60,000 for Chrome hack

article published on 8 March, 2012

Russian researcher gets nice payday from vulnerability he found in Chrome. Sergey Glazunov, who is familiar with Chrome bug hunting, uncovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Google's Chrome web browser. He demonstrated how he could use this vulnerability to escape the Chrome sandbox and run unauthorized code on a full-patched Windows 7 system. His award comes as part of the ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		8. March 2012 @ 14:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well done
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nbfreak2
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_ 		8. March 2012 @ 19:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I thought they offered a million dollars?
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beanos66
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_ 		9. March 2012 @ 04:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by nbfreak2:
 I thought they offered a million dollars?
there is a Million Dollar prize fund, which means much like the Lottery the prize is split between multiple winners
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