IE, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry fall at Pwn2Own; Chrome, Firefox, Android ...Washington Post (blog) - Rob Pegoraro - 14 Mar, 2011Pwn2Own â€" an annual computer-security contest in which researchers vie to win cash prizes and computer hardware by exploiting Web browsers â€" ended last week, and the results may surprise you. The first browser to get hacked was Apple's ... |
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Google patches Pwn2Own WebKit bug in ChromeComputerworld - Gregg Keizer - 14 Mar, 2011Computerworld - Google has patched a WebKit flaw in its Chrome browser that was exploited by a multinational team to hack the BlackBerry Torch smartphone at Pwn2Own. Although Chrome was unchallenged at Pwn2Own, the browser relies on the ... |
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Google patches WebKit flaw post Pwn2OwnIT PRO - Tom Brewster - 14 Mar, 2011Even though Google Chrome was not hacked during the competition, the bug resided in WebKit - the rendering engine used by the browser. WebKit is also featured in Apple's Safari and the browser found on BlackBerry ... |
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Google Plugs Chrome for Blackberry Pwn2own VulneSecurity Planet - Sean Michael Kerner - 14 Mar, 2011Google is updating its new Chrome 10 browser, just days after the browser hit its first stable release. Chrome 10.0.648.133 fixes just one flaw, on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame for IE. The flaw is known as CVE-2011-1290 ... |
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Biggest Tech Surprise of 2011: Google's Chrome OSMinyanville.com - Anton Wahlman - 14 Mar, 2011We hear a lot about the impact of Apple's (AAPL) iPad 2 these days, and we will surely hear as much about the expected iPhone 5 in June. Estimates of annual shipments for these products vary, ... |
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IPhone, BlackBerry Cracked in Hacking ContestMobiledia - Peter Ferenczi - 14 Mar, 2011Contestants at the Pwn2Own competition successfully hacked an iPhone 4 and a BlackBerry, underscoring the ongoing security issues with smartphones. Three researchers working together exploited a ... |
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Pwn2Own 2011: Google patches hole in ChromeThe H - 14 Mar, 2011Although Chrome wasn't attacked directly at the contest, Google has released an update for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions of its browser. The update closes a hole in WebKit that was originally exploited in Blackberry devices â€" because, ... |
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PWN2OWN - Apple v. Google v. Microsoft v. Mozilla v. BlackBerry!Naked Security - 14 Mar, 2011by Paul Ducklin on March 14, 2011 | 2 Comments If you're interested in computer security, you've probably heard of PWN2OWN. It's a competition which has become an annual fixture at the annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... |
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