Safari fell in the blink of an eye, while Chrome emerged unscathed from its third consecutive Pwn2Own hacking contest. At face value, it seems that we should simply avoid using Apple's Web browser, and everyone should use Google Chrome. But, it's not quite that simple, and there are some other lessons to be learned from what was hacked--and what wasn't--at the annual security event.

Apple just updated the Safari Web browser to patch any known bugs and issues before teams of hackers took a crack at it. It didn't do much good. A team was able to exploit Safari to exploit a MacBook Air in five seconds. Yes, five seconds--like less time than it takes most people just to type "Safari got hacked in less than five seconds".

They're all vulnerable. Choose wisely, but don't let your guard down.Meanwhile, nobody even attempted to take the record $20,000 prize offered by Google for a successful hack of the Chrome browser. There were two teams registered to give it a shot, but one no-showed and the other chose to skip the Chrome contest to focus on its efforts to hack the BlackBerry OS. So--Chrome remains unhacked, apparently devoid of exploitable security holes.

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