Pwn2Own: Hackers Bring Popular Browsers To Their Knees
The results from the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest are in, and the score is as follows: hackers one, software zero.
During the past two days, security researchers pwned Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 (IE 10), Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox at the competition, which is held at the CanSecWest Applied Security conference in Vancouver. Besides the browsers, this year's researchers also successfully compromised Oracle Java, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader. The only browser that was part of the competition that was not compromised was Apple Safari running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Collectively, the researchers' winnings totaled $480,000 in cash prizes, in addition to the hardware they compromised and ZDI awards points.
