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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week

Monday review - the hot stories of the week

In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.

Researcher rewarded over $30,000 for nailing three Chrome OS security flaws

Researcher rewarded $30K+ for nailing three Chrome OS flaws

The high-risk bugs must have been poisonous indeed, given that researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann is looking at a $31,336 thank-you.

Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week

Monday review - the hot stories of the week

Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

Google announces brand new web browser core, so does Mozilla

When you wait ages for a bus, and then three come along at once, it's not a coincidence: it's a side-effect of queuing and traffic lights.

But what about when three browser vendors make announcements on the same day?

Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

Monday review - the hot stories of the week

It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.

Google to pay $40,000 "consolation prize" to Pinkie Pie for not-quite breaking into Chrome OS

Renowned Chrome hacker Pinkie Pie, who scooped the prize at last year's Pwnium competition, didn't quite get across the line this year.

But Google will pay him a one-third-sized consolation prize anyway, for "honoring the spirit of the competition."

Firefox and Chrome patched ALREADY after Pwn2own - now the pressure is on for IE and Microsoft!

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Mozilla and Google have already pushed out patches to stop the exploits that got past their browsers at this year's PWN2OWN competition!

That certainly throws down the gauntlet to Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer 10 browser was also successfully breached in the competition.

PWN2OWN results Day Two - Adobe Reader and Flash owned, Java felled yet again

PWN2OWN 2013 finished off today.

A second scheduled attack on IE 10 didn't happen, so IE 10 didn't get owned again, but Flash and Reader fell once each, and Java was exploited for the fourth time in two days...

PWN2OWN results Day One - Java, Chrome, IE 10 and Firefox owned

Of the Big Four browsers, only Apple's Safari has so far survived the onslaught of the browser-breakers at PWN2OWN 2013.

Java fell three times today; Adobe's Flash and Reader meet their attackers tomorrow...

Last-minute pre-Pwnium Chrome update closes numerous holes...

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Google just slammed the door on a number of vulnerabilities in Chrome.

Just two days before its flagship browser was due to go under public hacking scrutiny at a Canadian security conference...

Find a new way of exploiting Chrome, IE, Java, etc.. and you could win millions of dollars

Find a new way of exploiting Chrome, IE, Java, etc.. and you could win millions of dollars

Security researchers are gathering in Vancouver at the CanSecWest conference, in the hope of winning substantial cash prizes for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in the likes of Chrome, Internet Explorer and Java.

PWN2OWN - hack the Big Four browsers in public and go home with half a million dollars

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Only six weeks to go until PWN2OWN 2013, where you can hack the Big Four browsers and the Big Three plugins, and win over half a million dollars.

But is it just about the money?

Paul Ducklin investigates...

Turkish Certificate Authority screwup leads to attempted Google impersonation

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Another Certificate Authority has been caught out having issued certificates that were being used to impersonate Google. Does the SSL padlock not mean we are safe anymore?

Monday review: the hot 20 stories of the week

Monday review: the hot 20 stories of the week

It's weekly roundup time - here's everything we published in the last seven days.

Google updates Chrome, finally adds Do Not Track feature

Google updates Chrome, finally adds Do Not Track feature

Google’s Chrome web browser finally joined the ranks of privacy-conscious web browsers this week, with a new release that adds a Do Not Track feature, along with other changes.

Monday review: the hot 24 stories of the week

Monday review: the hot 24 stories of the week

Here you go.

All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).

Adobe fixes 25 critical security holes in its software

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Adobe released an important update for its software on Monday, fixing 25 security holes. The updates affect Flash running on Windows, Apple Mac and Linux systems.

In addition, Adobe AIR users on Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS are also advised to install an update.

Beware the Bad Piggies: Fake games hit 82k Chrome users with adware

Beware the Bad Piggies: Fake Rovio game hits 82k Chrome users with adware

Google Chrome users are warned that supposedly “free” versions of the Angry Birds spin-off “Bad Piggies” are fakes that harvest data and install adware.

Monday review: the hot 18 stories of the week

Monday review: the hot 18 stories of the week

It's weekly summary time.

Here's everything we've written in the last seven days.

Finally, Google Chrome will support Do Not Track

Finally; Google Chrome will support Do Not Track

Google has finally added support for the DNT (Do Not Track) header to their latest developer build of Chrome. The modification is likely to make it into an official release of Google's popular web browser before the end of the year.