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appleinsider.com - 3/27/2009
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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.
computerworld.com - 3/25/2009
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computerworld.com —
All five smartphones survive PWN2OWN hacker contest
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All five smartphones survive PWN2OWN hacker contest
dvlabs.tippingpoint.com - 3/20/2009
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dvlabs.tippingpoint.com —
The 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest kicked off its
second day today at CanSecWest this morning. If you...
missed it, check out yesterday's browser carnage (with pics) . Today, any contestant could attempt to break into a fully patched browser (IE8, Firefox, ...
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DVLabs | Pwn2Own Day 2
dvlabs.tippingpoint.com - 3/22/2009
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dvlabs.tippingpoint.com —
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, ...
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DVLabs | Pwn2Own Wrap Up
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Winning Pwn2Own Hacker: Macs Are Safer Than PCs [Fight Night]
Gizmodo —
... won't get Conficker, either). And not be stupid. Since no anti-malware software would've stopped his exploit: "None of those protections would have probably worked, or at least there were potential workarounds. The best thing the user could have done is not click on the malicious link. Of course, in some cases such as a man-in-the-middle attack, even this wouldn't have helped." Oh, so maybe everybody is just screwed. [Tom's Hardware via AppleInsider]
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