Russian works around sandbox to pull off Chrome exploit

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A security researcher based in Russia pocketed a cool $60,000 from Google on Wednesday after he submitted a a “full exploit” for a vulnerability in the difficult-to-compromise Chrome browser.

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. 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.

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