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Many have been wondering why the security experts from French company Vupen refused to enter the Google-funded Pwnium competition and only enrolled in TippingPoint’s Pwn2Own event. The short answer is because Google would have wanted the complete description of the vulnerabilities in return for the bounty.
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21 March 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Researchers from French security firm VUPEN identified a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities that affect Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 9. A Microsoft representative has detailed the patch-up process that’s about to take place in the next days. ZDNet was at Pwn2Own 2012 and managed to get a quick inte... |
12 March 2012
11:27 GMT |
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A few hours before the Pwnium competition ended, a security enthusiast known as Pinkie Pie earned himself a prize of $60,000 (45,000 EUR) for identifying three zero-day vulnerabilities present in Chrome. Google almost immediately released an update for the browser’s stable channel to address the issues. Pinki... |
12 March 2012
06:18 GMT |
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VUPEN, the team of French security researchers that identified a vulnerability in Google Chrome yesterday as part of the Pwn2Own browser-hacking competition, managed to compromise Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 9. Threat Post reports that the experts found a heap overflow issue that’s present in many... |
9 March 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Not long after the Pwn2Own and Pwnium competitions started, security experts managed to identify vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that could be exploited by ill-intended hackers. This year Google decided that it didn’t like the new rules of Pwn2Own so it started its own contest, Pwnium, with a total prize of $... |
8 March 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Around this time each year, white-hat hackers and security experts get together to try to break the protection in popular browsers, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, in the Pwn2Own competition.
Hackers compete for cash prizes and get to keep the laptops they manage to "own." Ever since Chrome was intro... |
28 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Apple has released Safari 5.0.5 for Windows and Mac in order to address two critical vulnerabilities disclosed during the Pwn2Own competition earlier this year.Both vulnerabilities are located in the WebKit layout engine and can be exploited over the web in drive-by download attacks.The first, identified as CVE-2011-... |
18 April 2011
00:18 GMT |
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Apple has released security updates for its Mac OS X and iOS operating systems in order to block rogue digital certificates issued by Comodo over a month ago.The new Security Update 2011-002 available for Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.7, and Mac OS X Server v10.6.7, only updates the hard-c... |
15 April 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Google has released updates for the Chrome stable and beta versions in order to patch the WebKit vulnerability used at Pwn2Own to hack into the BlackBerry.Last week, a trio of security researchers made up of Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf Philipp Weinmann and Willem Pinckaers, won one of the $15,000 Pwn2Own prizes after hackin... |
14 March 2011
01:23 GMT |
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Apple-nemesis Charlie Miller says that iOS 4.3 still poses some of the security vulnerabilities he was able to exploit during a hacking contest recently, though people attempting to reproduce the hack will likely not succeed, he revealed in an interview.
A researcher with the consulting firm Independent Security E... |
11 March 2011
05:53 GMT |
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The iPhone 4 was compromised by renowned Mac hacker Charlie Miller during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest by using a drive-by download attack.Miller collaborated on the exploit with Dion Blazakis, a colleague from Independent Security Evaluators, the company he works for.The attack exploited a vulnera... |
11 March 2011
04:50 GMT |
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BlackBerry OS fell during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking competition as a result of a drive-by download attack that chained together several exploits.The trio that managed to hack RIM's mobile operating system, Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers and Ralf Philipp Weinmann, exploited two vulnerabilities in th... |
11 March 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 was the second browser to fall at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, but the security researcher responsible for the hack had to chain together three exploits.Pwn2Own 2011 kicked off yesterday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, with Safari being compromised in five seconds by researchers... |
10 March 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Apple released a massive security update for Safari minutes before the Pwn2Own 2011 contest kicked off, but it didn't stop hackers from compromising it.The new Safari 5.0.4 was released for Windows, Mac OS X 10.6 and Mac OS X 10.5, to address 62 vulnerabilities in different components.Of the patched flaws 56 cou... |
10 March 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Apple's Safari browser lasted only five seconds against hackers at the Pwn2Own 2011 contest, who compromised it using a fully transparent drive-by download attack.The 5th annual Pwn2Own competition which places hackers against browsers and mobile devices kicked off yesterday at the CanSecWest security conference... |
10 March 2011
02:55 GMT |
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Apple will attempt to stop hackers in their tracks with a Safari patch set to fix numerous WebKit vulnerabilities, according to security firm Vupen. The move was rather foreseeable with the Pwn2Own hacking contest mere days away.
A leading IT security research company providing vulnerability management and securit... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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The organizers of the Pwn2Own hacking competition taking place at CanSecWest are expecting to see an even greater interest from security researchers this year as the cash prizes have increased."[...] We've upped the ante this time around and the total cash pool allotted for prizes has risen to a whopping $125,00... |
3 February 2011
05:24 GMT |
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The second update to the latest iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser is now available for download. And although Firefox 3.6.3 could have in fact been the refresh that brought Firefox Codenamed Lorentz to users, fact is that the latest release is nothing more than a security update. With Firefox 3.6.3, Mo... |
2 April 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Google Chrome is proving to be a real challenge to hackers. The browser was the only one left standing, for the second year in a row, in the Pwn2Own competition, which challenges security experts to hack into a computer through one of the four most popular web browsers out there for cash prizes. All other browsers, i... |
29 March 2010
09:27 GMT |
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At this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition, the renowned security researcher going by the name of Charlie Miller walked off with a new MacBook Pro computer, after exposing a vulnerability in the Mac OS X Safari browser, compromising the system. Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators, showed great discontent... |
26 March 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Another year has passed, and the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) kicked off the annual Pwn2Own contest again this year, at the CanSecWest security conference held in Vancouver, BC, on March 24th, 2010. One of the platforms targeted in the first day of the hacking competition was, of course, the iPhone 3GS. App... |
25 March 2010
06:38 GMT |
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When it comes down to browser security, public perception and corporate marketing do little to actually bulletproof against hacking attempts. And, apparently, not even complex mitigations built into the underlying platform are sufficient. White hackers owned Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 running on top of Windows... |
25 March 2010
03:19 GMT |
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In what looked like a Pwn2Own rerun, the CanSecWest conference this week saw security researcher Charlie Miller crack Safari on a machine running Mac OS X again. Miller was able to use an exploit he had already prepared to win the contest, just like he did last year. The researcher has granted the reporting rights of... |
19 March 2009
11:37 GMT |
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A hack contest scheduled for mid-March 2009 will throw Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Safari and Opera into the same arena and make them excellent items of prey for white hackers. The annual CanSecWest conference has reached the tenth edition, a milestone that will catalyze a convergence of security researchers to the... |
20 February 2009
05:33 GMT |
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