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First Pwn2Own 2009 Contest Winners Emerge

Posted by timothy on from the good-work-if-you-can-get-it dept.

mellowdonkey writes "Last year's CanSecWest hacking contest winner, Charlie Miller, does it again this year in the 2009 Pwn2Own contest. Charlie was the first to compromise Safari this year to win a brand spankin new Macbook. Nils, the other winner, was able to use three separate zero day exploits to whack IE8, Firefox, and Safari as well. Full detail and pictures are available from the sponsor, TippingPoint, who acquired all of the exploits through their Zero Day Initiative program."

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WTF ? by fat_mike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you really believe that these things involve anything more than "I'm uber-geek, all shall bow before me" contests?

    If these "Pwn20wn" things were serious then they wouldn't be advertised on here.

    Also you suck and so does your grammar, gramer, grammer, gemmar. Fuck, somebody write me a Linux grammar checker.

  2. Re:Let me be the first to say by oaklybonn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I wonder how much of "Mac easiest to hack" is due to the fact that WebKit is open source? Its got to be pretty easy to find exploits when you've got the source in front of you! And considering Darwin is open source, I'm surprised they weren't able to find a root exploit as well.