InfoWorld - Security Adviser: The curious case of the invulnerable Web browser

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Even if every Internet browser were vulnerability-free, it wouldn't stop malicious hackers and malware

By Roger A. Grimes
March 27, 2009

The results of the CanSecWest 2009 PWN2OWN hacking contest are in. And guess what? The hackers won, and the browsers lost -- the lone exception being Google Chrome. Hackers successfully compromised fully patched Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari browsers, all using exploits that required the local user to load a malicious Web site. Today, that's how 99.999 percent of exploits happen.

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