What you might not know:
There're only 5 teams in this year's event, 4 of them are from China(2 teams from Tencent and 2 teams from QiHoo 360). The other one is a one-man-team from Korean.
Researchers pulled off multiple OS X, Windows and web browser exploits at the latest Pwn2Own competition. White hat hackers earned $460,000 in prizes for finding and exploiting 21 security vulnerabilities in widely used software. Details of the flaws were privately shared with vendors so that their code that can be fixed and …
"Microsoft Edge twice"
While Flash being hacked doesn't come as a surprise to anyone, as it's complete rubbish, Edge seems a bit of a surprise. Is it not meant to be the secure web browser IE never was ? I guess MS didn't get it right this time either, which is largely confirmed by every IE 5 to 11/Edge patches I see coming every week.
Theoretically impossible to secure a web browser.
In all honesty, Edge (and I'm no fan of Edge) is holding up pretty well for software which is so massive and so new. Having worked for years as a browser developer, I can't possibly imagine many good ways to both implement functionality as well as harden a browser except through a reactive method of closing holes once they are found.