Software

Google’s Giving $60,000 To Whoever Can Exploit Chrome

While both Safari and IE collapsed under the pressure from hackers at last year’s Pwn2Own contest, not one person was able to crack Chrome. This year, Google’s sweetening the pot with a million dollars in prizes to successful exploiters.


March 25, 2010
Mobile

iPhone’s SMS Database Can Be Hijacked In 20 Seconds

As part of the Pwn2Own 2010 hacking contest, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann created an exploit which allows them to hijack fully-patched iPhones’ SMS databases – right down to deleted messages – simply by luring users to a “rigged” website.


March 2, 2010
Online

Security Expert: No Computer Is Safe, Especially If It Has Flash

You’re probably relatively confident in your various machines’ integrity against hackers. Repeat Pwn2Own hacking competition victor Charlie Miller would like you to know that you’re wrong.


March 27, 2009
Software

Winning Pwn2Own Hacker: Macs Are Safer Than PCs

Charlie Miller, the security expert whose meticulously crafted exploit took over a MacBook through Safari in 10 seconds at the Pwn2Own hacking competition, says that Macs are in fact safer than Windows. Oh boy.


March 26, 2009
Software

Every Smartphone OS Endures Pwn2Own Unhacked

After Safari was busted in 10 seconds at the Pwn2Own hacking competition, you’d think puny smartphones wouldn’t stand a chance. But you’d be wrong!


March 21, 2009
Software

Chrome Is the Last Browser Standing at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

Whether you’re a Google Chrome fan or not, you have to give it up to the guys at Google for withstanding day one of the Pwn2Own hacking competition when other browsers went down in flames.


March 20, 2009
Software

Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don’t sleep at night, browsers were on the first day’s menu. And Safari went down in seconds.