The Pwn2Own is a competition between hackers, which takes place every year to reward those who manage to pierce operating systems, browsers, and more! Winning prize money at the end very expensive. But let's see what happened on the first day, in whose program was the hacking of several specific Internet browser on OS:
Day 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7
- Google Chrome 4 on Windows 7 4
- Apple Safari on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Internet Explorer 8 and Safari are immediately pierced by the participants. IE8 was pierced by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security Group winning $ 15,000 and a Sony Vaio. Stephen took advantage of three vulnerability to bypass security systems, executing code in the browser and bypassing the Protection Mode IE.
While the defenses of Safari have been unhinged by Team VUPEN , who created a website specifically to exploit a flaw in the WebKit rendering engine doing skip the argument and allows the team to execute arbitrary code.
But the challenge does not end here, this is the program for the next few days: Day 2
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Vista
- Mozilla Firefox 3 on Windows Google Chrome 4
- Vista Windows Vista
- Apple Safari 4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Day 3
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP
- Mozilla Firefox 3 on Windows XP
- Google Chrome on Windows XP
- 4 Apple Safari 4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Target special: Phones
- Apple iPhone 3G
- RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 Nokia E72
- HTC device running Symbian Nexus running Android
As you can see we have something for all tastes, all is very interesting and we look forward to the next results of this competition!
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