The security of the Web is looking a little like Al Bundy right about now (look it up kids) A number of hacks uncovered in Las Vegas targeted architectural problems in browsers or protocols rather than patchable vulnerabilities. In other words, there’s no way to fix this stuff without a pretty sizable tear-down of things. In the meantime hackers have free run at these problems to pwn websites, steal accounts, monitor traffic and lots more. These attacks also brought out the beauty of the research community too and its ability to think about problems in radical ways.
Source: https://threatpost.com/black-hat-aftermath-a-broken-battered-internet/101616/