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."

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Re:Simple

[clang_jangle]

Perhaps your kind is the reason why Apple is hated. You disgust me.

Thanks for illustrating my point with your blind, irrational, displaced rage.

Read it again troll, this time thinking about the fact that I'm a gentoo and freebsd user. :P