VANCOUVER–For the fourth consecutive year, researcher Charlie Miller won one of the prizes at the annual Pwn2Own contest here. The difference this time is that Miller successfully exploited an iPhone 4 to win, rather than Safari, which he’s gone after the last three years. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 also was taken down, by a multinational team of researchers who were able to exploit the device’s browser by chaining three exploits together.
The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the utility of memory protections.
A Hong Kong based developer of games for mobile devices says that its online, multi player games are being besieged by users making fraudulent purchases from compromised iTunes accounts and says that iPhone maker Apple has turned a deaf ear to its efforts cut off the bogus activity.
VANCOUVER–On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest here, contestants were able to take down both Safari on Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. None of the researchers decided to try their hand against Google Chrome, however, so that browser was the only one still standing after day one.
How is defending your network and users from sophisticated cyber attacks like fending off a zombie invasion? Funny you should ask! In an interview with Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts, Josh Corman, the Research Director in the Enterprise Security Practice at the 451 Group reprises a 2011 RSA Conference presentation, with security luminary Alex Hutton, “Metrics are Bunk: The Zombie Apocalypse, Baseball, and Security Metrics.”
VANCOUVER — 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. But as the fifth edition of the hacker challenge gets underway at the CanSecWest conference here this week, it has evolved into a display of some of the few things that are actually good and right with the security community.
Google announced plans yesterday to fortify the Android Market in response to the appearance of the DroidDream Trojan, but do the company’s plans cross the line from innovative to intrusive? In a blog post, Kaspersky Labs researcher Timothy Armstrong warns that the search giant’s plans to repair Droid phones without user consent may not pass the sniff test.
Microsoft Corp. issued their monthly security bulletins on Tuesday, with fixes for four known vulnerabilities in the company’s Windows operating system, Office suite and Remote Desktop Connection products.
Google has announced plans to implement new security features in order to strengthen the defenses of the Android Market following the appearance of a Trojan horse, DroidDream, targeting devices running the company’s Android mobile operating system.
There was a sharp jump in the prevalence of malicious Web advertisements in the final quarter of 2010, with loosely monitored “remnant” ad networks responsible for an increasing share of the attacks, according to a report from the firm Dasient.
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