Day one of the pwn2own security contest has seen successful attacks on the iPhone, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, and Safari.
…The first day of the annual Pwn2Own contest in which security researchers can win cash and hardware if they successfully compromise machines using zero-day exploits is finished. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7, Firefox 3 on Windows 7, Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.6, and iPhone OS 3 were all compromised during the competition. Google’s Chrome was the only browser left standing and in fact, was completely untested. None of the researchers at the competition even tried to attack Chrome.So far, little is known about the successful exploits. Until vendors have been informed of the flaws and those flaws have been patched, details will not be made public….
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IE8, Safari 4, Firefox 3, iPhone fall on day 1 of Pwn2Own
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