Q&A: CanSecWest hacker Charlie Miller

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, th...

Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods

Apply all of the browser, application and OS patches you want, your machine still can be completely and silently compromised at the lowest level–without the use of any vulnerability. That was the rather sobering message delivered by a pair of security researchers from Core Security Technologies i...

CanSecWest: Caution, community at play

CanSecWest, in beautiful Vancouver BC, is one of my favorite conferences each year. It’s a cozy little security con that brings together security researchers from all parts of the security ecosystem. Like a PhNeutral or a BlueHat, one never quite knows what to expect out of a CanSecWest, but we d...

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

All three major Web browsers — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari — failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. A security researcher named “Nils” he declined to provide his full name performed a clean drive-by download attack...

Android, iPhone security under scrutiny at CanSecWest

A parade of security researchers spent the better part of Wednesday at the CanSecWest conference putting the lie to the notion that iPhones, Windows Mobile devices and other smartphones are not really targets for attackers. “Smartphones are a very nice thing to go after from an attacker’s point o...

Pwn2Own hacker: Safari is 'easy pickings'

Charlie Miller right, the security researcher who won last year’s Pwn2Own hacker contest, is predicting that Apple’s Safari browser will be the easiest target this year. In a note posted on the popular Daily Dave mailing list, Miller describes Safari as “easy pickin’s” and forecasts that at least...

Pwn2Own 2009: Browsers and smart phones are targets

TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative has released the rules for this year’s CanSecWest PWN2OWN contest, which will target unpatched flaws in Web browsers and mobile devices. Among the target list this year: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, Windows Mobile, Google...

CVE-2007-2175

Apple QuickTime Java extensions QTJava.dll, as used in Safari and other browsers, and when Java is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameters to the toQTPointer method in quicktime.util.QTHandleRef, which can be used to modify arbitrary memory when creating...

CVE-2007-2175

Apple QuickTime for Java (QTJava.dll) contains a heap memory corruption vulnerability in the toQTPointer function of QTHandleRef that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code when Java is enabled in a browser (as demonstrated at CanSecWest 2007). The issue affects Qu...

CVE-2007-2175

Apple QuickTime Java extensions QTJava.dll, as used in Safari and other browsers, and when Java is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameters to the toQTPointer method in quicktime.util.QTHandleRef, which can be used to modify arbitrary memory when creating...