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Hackers accept defeated Google Chrome for the aboriginal time in an anniversary antagonism to analysis the aegis of one of the best accepted web browser.

A accumulation of French hackers were able to bypass Google aegis appearance to accretion ascendancy of a Windows PC in beneath than bristles account at the Pwn2own antagonism in Canada.

Chrome had stood best in the 2011 antagonism but a French firm, Vupen defeated it this time.

“We capital to appearance that Chrome was not unbreakable. Last year, we saw a lot of account that no one could drudge Chrome. We capital to accomplish abiding it was the aboriginal to abatement this year,” The Telegraph quoted firm’s analysis arch Chaouki Bekrar, as saying.

Bekrar said his aggregation had formed for six weeks advanced of the antagonism to analyze vulnerabilities.

He added that his aggregation had additionally devised a action to drudge into Firefox and Internet Explorer, but capital to aboriginal authenticate that Chrome was not invincible.

Vupen had beforehand acclimated two ahead alien vulnerabilities to exhausted Chrome''s security, which is perceived to be stronger than rivals Firefox and Internet Explorer because of its use of “sandboxing”.

Vupen said it would accumulate capacity of how it bypassed Google''s head technology clandestine "for our customers".