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The Pwn2Own trifecta: Safari, IE 8, and Firefox exploited on day 1
Engadget —
... That didn't take long. One day into the Pwn2Own hacking competition at CanSecWest and already Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla have been sent packing to their respective labs to work on security issues in their browsers. In a repeat performance, Charlie ...
Pwn2Own 2009: Nils takes down IE8, Firefox and Safari
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... As the DVLabs report says: "Will Nils produce a Chrome exploit tomorrow, turning his trifecta into a clean sweap of all browsers? Stay tuned!" ...
Safari Hacked... Followed IE And Firefox
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... 7 on a Sony Vaio. As Terri Forslof, manager of security response for TippingPoint put it in a blog post , Nils "[defied] Microsoft's latest built in protection technologies -- DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as well as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) -- to take home the Sony Vaio and $5,000." Nils then proceeded to hack Safari and Firefox, both under Mac OS X, earning $10,000 more in prize money.
Safari Hacked... Followed IE And Firefox
TechWeb —
... 7 on a Sony Vaio. As Terri Forslof, manager of security response for TippingPoint put it in a blog post , Nils "[defied] Microsoft's latest built in protection technologies -- DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as well as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) -- to take home the Sony Vaio and $5,000." Nils then proceeded to hack Safari and Firefox, both under Mac OS X, earning $10,000 more in prize money.
Blanket insecurity
GMSV —
I hate to be a downer, but there’s a pile of security-related news floating around and unfortunately none of it is going to send you into the weekend on a hopeful and uplifting note. Still, in the interest of being forewarned and all that: * On the first day of the Pwn2Own browser hacking contest , Apple’s Safari fell first, exploited within seconds by security researcher Charlie Miller with a hack that would allow execution of unauthorized code. A German student who goes only by “Nils” followed that with successful cracks not only of Safari, but of Microsoft’s Internet ...
IE security update fixes hole exploited at hacking contest
The Microsoft Blog —
... , there's one addressing a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that a hacker exploited at a conference in March. [image] Hacker "Nils" identified the security hole during the Pwn2Own browser-hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, B.C., in which security researchers found and reported security vulnerabilities in software. The conference was sponsored in part by network-security company TippingPoint. From TippingPoint's Own2Pwn blog in March: Just Nils - you know, like "Prince" or "Madonna." With a little tweaking, he ran a sleek exploit against IE8, defying ...
