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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Computer Security Advances don't just come from malicious attacks that are subsequently patched by software programmers. They are also the result of more genial attempts to hack into commonly used apps. Sometimes people even throw hacking competitions to see who can...
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iPhone Hacked Fast at Pwn2Own 2010
An iPhone got hacked in just 20 seconds at this week’s Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest 2010, along with Internet Explorer 8, and Apple’s Safari browser. DV Labs sponsors the annual hacking contest where if you successfully exploit a target you get to...
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Some of you might have seen today's story by Gregg Keizer of our sister publication Computerworld headlined "Link Removed due to 404 Error" and may have asked the same question I asked.
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Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil broke into the current edition of the Web browser...
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March 25, 2010
(Dutch researcher explains his strategy for outwitting Microsoft defense mechanisms to win $ 10,000)
Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands bypasses DEP & ASLER to bring down Microsoft's Browser. And another German Researcher who wouldn't give his full name, called Nils found a...
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