Having offered a $20,000 prize to anyone who could hack its Chrome browser at next week
Gregg Keizer writes in NetworkWorld that Google on Monday patched 19 vulnerabilities, after paying the researchers $14,000 to find them.

Google did the same thing last year before the Pwn2Own contest, hosted annually at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, B.C. It was the only browser not successfully hacked at the 2010 conference.

The contest is organized by security software company TippingPoint, which was not going to invite Chrome this year after it was not hacked in 2010, TechCrunch reported. So Google put up $20,000 for anyone who can perform a sophisticated hack on Chrome.

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