Chrome shines compared to Safari, IE, and Firefox in a hacking test

Wednesday was day one of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest, and the results are in. Using fully patched copies of Safari, IE8, and Firefox, hackers broke them all. They each failed to what is called hacker “Nils.”

The Pwn2Own contest challenges experts in security to find and exploit vulnerabilities in browsers. And it apparently didn’t take them very long. They broke Safari in just seconds, and both IE8 and Firefox in a few hours. Chrome, however, remained intact.