Day one in annual Pwn2Own hacking competion, Safari were cracked in just 10 seconds by Charlie Miller using a remote-execution exploit to gain control of the Mac. IE8 and Firefox were cracked within a matter of hours.
Master’s student from the University of Oldenburg succesfully cracked the three browser. Charlie Miller won $5000 for the right to the exploit he use, the master’s student simply known as Nils also won $5000 and Sony Vaio for IE8 bugs.
This year Pwn2own contest also features a mobile OS hacking contest these include Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Symbian and the OS used by the iPhone and Blackberry awarding $10,000 cash prize for those who can cracked the said OS.
I wonder what happen to google chrome that day
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