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
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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
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A hacking contest similar to the US Cyber Challenge competition is to be launched next year in the UK. The most talented contestants will be offered cyber security training courses and could be recruited by the government or large companies.Britain's new security strategy involves strengthening its ability to co... |
13 October 2009
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A while back, StrongWebmail, a new webmail service claiming to offer the most secure email accounts on the planet, launched a hacking competition awarding $10,000 to the first hacker to break into the account of the company's CEO. The company acknowledged defeat to a team of three security researchers, who achie... |
11 June 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Strong Webmail, a webmail service featuring enhanced security, has recently challenged hackers to break into its CEO's e-mail account in order to win $10,000. It took a team of well-known security researchers under two weeks to succeed, through cross-site scripting. The hacking contest is part of a marketing ca... |
5 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Well, this is a bit of a surprise. This year's 'PWN to Own' contest hosted at CanSecWest saw Apple's MacBook Air get PWNED in 2 minutes flat. Charlie Miller (famed iPhone hacker), Jake Honoroff and Mark Daniel of Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air, ... |
28 March 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Another hacking contest, this time taking place in Vancouver, next month, will see Apple's OS X, Microsoft's Windows and the Linux operating system pitted against each other in a hacking competition, similar to the "PWN to Own" contest at CanSecWest in 2007. CanSecWest organizer, Dragos Ruiu, now in Tokyo,... |
8 February 2008
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