Is Chrome The Most Secure Browser Or Is Google Gaming The System?

Last July I wrote about a study by NSS Labs about which browser was most secure. Based on "socially engineered malware", NSS Labs concluded that Microsoft's IE was most secure. That certainly went against some of the traditional thinking in the security space. Recently the folks at Accuvant LABS have released a new study on browser security which indicates that Google's Chrome is most secure. The fact that Google sponsored and paid for this study has given rise to quite a bit of controversy.

I have been following this story on my own personal blog, Ashimmy, After All These Years, but since it involves the open source based Mozilla Firefox and the open source based (there is a difference) Google Chrome, I wanted to make sure readers of my blog here were aware of the controversy.