At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who won the Pwn2Own hacking contest by exploiting a fully patched MacBook Air machine using a Safari code execution vulnerability.
We discuss the state of Web browser security, the marketplace for software vulnerabilities and the need for better anti-exploit mitigations on modern operating systems.
Read the full interview [zdnet.com]. Image via TippingPoint.
At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who won the Pwn2Own hacking contest by exploiting a fully patched MacBook Air machine using a Safari code execution vulnerability.
We discuss the state of Web browser security, the marketplace for software vulnerabilities and the need for better anti-exploit mitigations on modern operating systems.
Read the full interview [zdnet.com]. Image via TippingPoint.
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