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Monday, March 23, 2009

Safari Falls First Again at Pwn2Own

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 08:00 AM

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...wn_contest.html

"In a repeat performance of last year, security researcher Charlie Miller arrived at the CanSecWest conference this week with a prepared exploit to use in cracking Safari running on Mac OS X. Unsurprisingly, Miller was able to use his exploit to immediately win the event's "Pwn2Own" contest, generating headlines that suggested that Macs are inherently less secure, despite the fact that every browser involved in the contest failed on the first day."

Ouch. Safari falls first again, although this doesn't say how long he worked on his "exploit" of Safari before the competition began. I'd call for an umpires ruling since that seems like cheating, but how can you really call it cheating when it is a hacking competition?


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