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.
Pwn2Own Winner Stephen Fewer
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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.
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Nice guy, congrats to Stephen! Interesting that he responded very positively to the idea of sandboxing as a mitigation technology, and then mentioned that none can be perfect and there will always be a design or implementation flaw.
Only $15k for three IE 8 0day in a functioning chain? Seems he got lowballed.