DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Wireless Router Hacking Contest

Home and small office wireless routers are feature-rich networking devices, providing consumers and mom-and-pop shops with much more than an Internet gateway. Some, for example, have a print server function, while others store personal files—and very few are secure out of the box. Hackers and...

Weekly Drawing Contest 0.0.1 Check_Vote.PHP Local File Include Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22937/info Weekly Drawing Contest is prone to a local file-include vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. Exploiting this issue may allow an unauthorized user to view local files on the...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

VUPEN Discloses Details of Patched Firefox Pwn2Own Zero-Days

Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own contest made no bones about it: they were going after browsers and as it turned out, Firefox had the biggest target on its back. Mozilla’s popular browser was popped four times during the Canadian hacker festival accounting for a quarter of the $800,000-plus in...

Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Dramatically Increase

Facebook today reported a dramatic increase in 2013 submissions to its bug bounty program, and said that despite reports from researchers that it’s becoming difficult to find severe bugs on its various properties, the social network plans to increase rewards for critical bugs. “The volume of...

Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, reported that it is possible for untrusted web content to load a chrome-privileged page by getting JavaScript-implemented WebIDL to call window.open. A second bug allowed the bypassing of the popup-blocker without user...

Out-of-bounds read/write through neutering ArrayBuffer objects — Mozilla

Security researcher Jüri Aedla, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, reported that TypedArrayObject does not handle the case where ArrayBuffer objects are neutered, setting their length to zero while still in use. This leads to out-of-bounds reads and writes into the JavaScript heap, allowing for...

Google Patches Four Pwn2Own Bugs in Chrome 33

Now that the dust has settled after the Pwn2Own contest, the browser manufacturers are beginning to roll out patches for the vulnerabilities exploited by contestants. Google on Monday released fixes for a number of bugs in Chrome discovered and exploited during Pwn2Own, releasing new versions of...

China's Keen Team Topples Safari, Flash at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER – One is the bug hunter, the other the exploit specialist. Fang Jiahong and Liang Chen represented the Keen Team at Pwn2Own on Thursday, starting off the second day of the annual exploit festival with a quick takedown of Apple’s Safari browser. They then wrapped up the contest with a...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Cisco Grand Challenge to Fix Internet of Things Security

As seemingly every new gadget and electronic device is coming retrofitted with an Internet connection these days – appliances, cars and medical devices a few chief examples, the floodgates have opened ever wider for an alarming number of new attack vectors. The burgeoning evolution of “Internet o...

Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For 'Internet of Things' Security Apps

In the last few years, this emerging domain for the Internet of Things has been attracting the significant interest, and will continue for the years to come. It would be a $20 Trillion Market over the next several years, but Security and privacy are the key issues for such applications, and still...

Google adds its Chrome apps and extensions to Bug Bounty Program

Google's Vulnerability Reward Program which started in November 2010, offers a hefty reward to the one who find a good vulnerability in its products. Now Google is getting a little more serious about the security of its Chrome Browser and has expanded its Bug Bounty Program to include all Chrome...

Pwn2Own To Pay $150,000 Grand Prize for Microsoft EMET Bypass

Microsoft has not been shy in the past nine months about advising users to install and use its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET as a temporary mitigation until zero-day vulnerabilities are patched. Experts have advised enterprises and smaller organizations to deploy EMET as a proactive...

Hacker 'Pinkie Pie' successfully compromised Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4

A Mysterious Hacker who goes by the "Pinkie Pie" handle is rewarded with $50,000 USD for hacking into the Google Chrome browser for Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4. At Information Security Conference PacSec 2013 in Tokyo, during the HP's Pwn2Own contest, a zero-day exploit showcased by "Pinkie Pie"...

Hackers Pool Money and Offer it For iPhone Fingerprint Hack

UPDATE: In an earlier version of this story, we failed to give proper credit to Robert Graham for his involvement in this project. A group of researchers, hackers, and other security enthusiast are pooling their money and offering it as a bounty to the first person that can successfully crack the...

Mobile Pwn2Own Offers $300k For Zero Days

It’s a good time to be a security researcher. If you have the time and talent to find vulnerabilities in widely deployed applications, there is a lot of money out there for the taking, and not just from the bug bounty programs and regular exploit buyers. The latest iteration of the Pwn2Own hackin...

Проверь Badoo на прочность! Месяц поиска уязвимостей

Цитата: Компания Badoo, вслед за своими коллегами ― крупнейшими представителями IT-индустрии, такими как Google, Facebook и Яндекс, начинает платить за найденные уязвимости. Мы объявляем конкурс «Проверь Badoo на прочность!», который стартует 19 марта и продлится ровно месяц. Участвовать в конкур...

Google Serves Up a Half Slice of Pwnium Cash for Pinkie Pie

Depending upon your perspective, the third iteration of Google Pwnium at this year’s CanSecWest conference was either a mild failure or a huge success. No researchers were able to come up with a full compromise of the Chrome OS, the target in this year’s contest, but Google said this week that it...