Researchers rake in $280K at Pwn2Own hacking contest
Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes.
Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's Java to win $20,000.
Vupen, a French vulnerability research and bug-selling firm that took first place at Pwn2Own last year, brought down IE10 running on a Windows 8 powered Surface Pro tablet by exploiting a pair of flaws. "We've pwned [Microsoft's] Surface Pro with two IE10 zero-days to achieve a full Windows 8 compromise with sandbox bypass," Vupen announced on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.
