Hack2own: Opera, no one hacked
So, last week ended the Hack2own contest on hacking operating systems, browsers and mobile devices, held in Moscow as part of Positive Hack Days 2012 . Immediately pleased to announce that Opera’s browser was not hacked in any of the three rounds of the competition. However, other browsers were also not hacked - the reputation of only WindowsXP, iOS and FreeBSD operating systems suffered: Russian hackers easily took advantage of the vulnerabilities that are abundantly presented in these operating systems.
And what about browsers? And with them everything turned out to be much more complicated. According to one of the participants of the competition, vulnerabilities in browsers are too valuable to be “scattered” at hacking competitions. On the black market, the cost of each vulnerability is several tens of thousands of dollars, because actually finding a gap in the code of a popular browser is not a simple task, requiring substantial costs both in terms of the necessary tools and in terms of time.
Well, as a result, we can draw quite logical conclusions:
- Browsers are much more important software products than even operating systems;
- Developers of modern popular browsers pay enough attention to the safety of their products, which is why the number of vulnerabilities in them is very small and the high price of each is a confirmation of this;
- Opera browser is one of the most secure browsers on the market, reliably protecting its users from malicious attacks.
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It remains only to congratulate the developers of Opera with excellent work, and all of us - with the right choice of a reliable browser.
PS Removed “browsers” from the list of hubs because of the too aggressive perception of the news by users of other browsers.
And what about browsers? And with them everything turned out to be much more complicated. According to one of the participants of the competition, vulnerabilities in browsers are too valuable to be “scattered” at hacking competitions. On the black market, the cost of each vulnerability is several tens of thousands of dollars, because actually finding a gap in the code of a popular browser is not a simple task, requiring substantial costs both in terms of the necessary tools and in terms of time.
Well, as a result, we can draw quite logical conclusions:
- Browsers are much more important software products than even operating systems;
- Developers of modern popular browsers pay enough attention to the safety of their products, which is why the number of vulnerabilities in them is very small and the high price of each is a confirmation of this;
- Opera browser is one of the most secure browsers on the market, reliably protecting its users from malicious attacks.
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It remains only to congratulate the developers of Opera with excellent work, and all of us - with the right choice of a reliable browser.
PS Removed “browsers” from the list of hubs because of the too aggressive perception of the news by users of other browsers.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/145331/
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