Researchers on Wednesday demonstrated that they could hack a non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 as part of the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show here.
Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, won $10,000 after hacking Safari on a MacBook Pro without having physical access to the machine. Miller won $5,000 last year by exploiting a hole in Safari, and in 2008 nabbed $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air, all on the same computer.
Peter Vreugdenhil, an independent security researcher from the Netherlands, will receive $10,000 for using his exploit to bypass security features in IE 8.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
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Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, won $10,000 after hacking Safari on a MacBook Pro without having physical access to the machine. Miller won $5,000 last year by exploiting a hole in Safari, and in 2008 nabbed $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air, all on the same computer.
Peter Vreugdenhil, an independent security researcher from the Netherlands, will receive $10,000 for using his exploit to bypass security features in IE 8.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
