Chrome OS security holes found, patched
Linux is very secure. Google's Linux-based Chrome OS, with its auto-updating and security sandboxing, is even more secure. But, neither is perfect. At Google's own Pwnium hacking contest and HP Zero Day Initiative's (ZDI) annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, three new sets of security problems were found in Chrome OS... and then immediately patched.
Pwnium, which is Google's hacking competition at the CanWestSec practical security company, was dedicated this year to finding security problems in Chrome OS. There was a "total of $2.71828 million USD in the pot (mathematical constant 'e' for the geeks at heart)." The targets for this exercise were a base, Wi-Fi model of the ARM-based HP Chromebook 11 or a 2GB Wi-Fi equipped model of the Acer C720 Intel Chromebook. In both cases, the Chromebooks were running the latest stable version of Chrome OS.
