• Firefox on Windows hardest target to crack

    Posted on March 20, 2009 at 21:03 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Ryan Naraine just posted a fascinating interview with Charlie Miller, the guy who broke into a fully patched MacBook at the annual Pwn2Own competition at the CanSecWest security conference.

    Charlie confirms what you’ve known all along:

    It’s really hard to exploit Firefox on Windows… For all the browsers on operating systems, the hardest target is Firefox on Windows.

    Read what he says about Chrome. I, for one, was very impressed.

    Thanks to reader GE for the heads-up…

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