Peaches Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don't sleep at night, browsers were on the first day's menu. And Safari went down in seconds.more... Security researcher Charlie Miller hacked Safari in just 10 seconds, then used a remote-execution exploit to take over the up-to-date MacBook and make it do his dirty bidding. Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 (which you can download at noon today) fell within a few hours to Nils, a master's student who busted all three browsers wide open. They each won $5000. Day 2 will offer more $5000 prizes for discovering new bugs in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Mobile phone OS's will also be part of the event, with $10,000 for cracking any of the five majors: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. Care to take bets on which one will go down first? [Pocket Lint] Source - Yahoo news http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23051/24075/Safari-hacked-seconds-Pwn2Own-contest.phtml and http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...10_seconds.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Besttechie Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Not surprised at all actually. B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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