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Mar
11
2011

Microsoft says the vulnerability used by researcher Stephen Fewer to exploit Internet Explorer 8 has already been fixed in the RC and RTM versions of Internet Explorer 9.

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Research in Motion’s recent decision to add a WebKit browser to BlackBerry has immediately backfired.

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Charlie Miller kept his Pwn2Own winning streak intact with another successful hack of an Apple product.

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Mar
10
2011

When the Pwn2Own contest began in 2007, it was dismissed by some in the industry as nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to inflate the egos of researchers while embarrassing software vendors

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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.

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Using three different vulnerabilities and clever exploitation techniques, Irish security researcher Stephen Fewer successfully hacked into a 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1) running Internet Explorer 8 to win this year’s CanSecWest hacker challenge.

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Mar
7
2011

The actual vulnerability was an incredibly low-hanging naive persistent XSS in the Android web market.  When posting an Android application through the publishing interface, there’s a description field for you to describe your application

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A vulnerability that a researcher planned to use to compromise an Android cellphone at a hacking contest later this week got squashed after Google fixed the underlying bug in the Android Market.

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Feb
3
2011

It's that time of year again and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team here at HP TippingPoint is proud to announce the 5th annual Pwn2Own competition is back.

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