dvlabs.tippingpoint.com - 3/22/2009
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We are all wrapped up from this years CanSecWest and pwn2own contest, and again it was a great conference, and a successful competition. The contest uncovered 4 new and unique critical vulnerabilities affecting the latest and greatest versions of IE, Safari and FireFox. The Chrome browser gets a ...
arstechnica.com - 3/20/2009
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arstechnica.com —
During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security
researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox,...
Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the ...
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Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own
blogs.zdnet.com - 3/19/2009
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blogs.zdnet.com —
[ UPDATE: IE 8 and Safari also fall
] VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it...
again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in ...
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Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in seconds
pocket-lint.com - 3/19/2009
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pocket-lint.com —
IE8 and Firefox cracked soon after In just
day one of the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition, IE8...
and Firefox were cracked within a matter of hours, and Safari floored within seconds. ... Read Safari hacked within seconds at Pwn2Own contest ...
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NEWS: Safari hacked within seconds at Pwn2Own contest
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Smartphones não caem na PWN2OWN; pesquisadores atualizam ferramenta de segurança para Mac
MacMagazine —
... e o que pode-se resumir do evento é que, entre os navegadores, o Apple Safari foi o grande perdedor, enquanto o Google Chrome saiu como o mais seguro. Incrivelmente, nenhuma plataforma móvel foi derrubada. ...
Mobile Browsers Stump Hackers
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... which can be show stoppers just between the hardware manufacturers’s themselves, or the carrier network the phone is associated with. These are just a few examples, and lack of known debuggers for many of the platforms adds limitations.
While it might be safe to call mobile software secure for the time being, I think it’s safe to say the gap between laptop and smartphone is closing, and as handsets expand in function, so will the security gaps.
[via TippingPoint]
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Pwn2Own contest winner: Macs are safer than Windows
appleinsider.com 3/27/2009 — Charlie Miller, the security expert who won both this and last year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own security contests by exploiting Macs running Safari, repeated in an interview that he'd recommend Macs to typical users as a safer alternative to Windows PCs.