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Chrome 12 Also Affected by Sandbox Escape Exploit

French vulnerability research company VUPEN Security announced that the upcoming version of Google Chrome, 12, is also vulnerable to the sandbox escaping attack it recently developed.On Monday, VUPEN announced that, after a lot of work, its researchers managed to devise a Web-based attack capable of breaking out of t...

11 May 2011
13:26 GMT

Researchers Crack Google Chrome's Sandbox

Security researchers from French vulnerability research outfit VUPEN Security claim they managed to exploit Google Chrome and execute arbitrary code by breaking out of the browser's reputed sandbox.The researchers have published a video of the exploit they developed in action against Chrome 11.0.696.65 running o...

10 May 2011
03:22 GMT

Safari Pwned in Five Seconds at Pwn2Own

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

New Windows Vulnerability Could Re-Enable Old Exploits

A newly discovered Windows vulnerability might allow hackers to re-enable any ActiveX exploit previously blocked by Microsoft. Vulnerability researchers from VUPEN Security have successfully crafted a proof-of-concept attack that leverages the flaw to bypass an active killbit.Setting killbits is the default method us...

7 August 2010
08:03 GMT

New Critical Vulnerability Affects All Internet Explorer Versions

French vulnerability research company VUPEN Security reports the discovery of a use-after-free vulnerability affecting all versions of Internet Explorer that could possibly lead to code execution. According to the company's new "no more bugs for free" policy, details of the flaw will not be shared with Microsoft...

7 July 2010
06:33 GMT


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