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Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011
recoiledsnake writes "A team of security researchers from the French pen-testing firm VUPEN successfully exploited a zero-day flaw in Apple's Safari browser to win this year's Pwn2Own hacker challenge. The hijacked machine was running a fully patched version of Mac OS X (64-bit). Bekrar's winning exploit did not even crash the browser after exploitation. Within five seconds of surfing to the rigged site, he successfully launched the calculator app and wrote a file on the disk without crashing the browser. Apple has just released Safari 5.0.4 and iOS 4.3 a few minutes before the Pwn2Own contest in an attempt to save face (a last minute patch for Chrome was also released) but failed."
No one knows. Up until now the French have never had reason to use the word. You can't pwn someone and surrender at the same time.
The researcher who was going to go after Chrome never showed up...
So... google has the best assassins?
he used google maps to find the place.....and oh, he found it....