Safari, Internet Explorer hacked first at Pwn2Own

Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) both fell to the first hackers who tried their luck on the browsers at Wednesday’s opening day of Pwn2Own.

The hacking challenge kicked off at 3:30 p.m. PT, slightly later than scheduled, at the CanSecWest security conference, which runs March 9-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A team from the French security company Vupen walked off with $15,000 and a new MacBook Air after exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Safari.

Earlier Wednesday, Apple updated Safarito version 5.0.4, fixing 62 vulnerabilities. But Vupen was still able to break the browser.

More: http://www.macworld.com/article/158466/

Also, video interview with the guy who made this possible.

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/pwn2own-winner-stephen-fewer-031011

Vupen's site has been overflown with traffic. They are growing fast.

They hack Safari get a computer with Safari. <_< Nice cash reward though.

Ehh...I would have wanted more. $15,000 is not that great. But, it's better than nothing.

Well, considering the economy that's decent I think for average citizens.

Yeah, but they're a company. That's nothing to sneeze at in a company. What would that do? Pay a bonus? Sheesh. Lol

Sounds like a donut after 10 years of faithful service.