Why Pwn2Own Is What's Right With Security

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...

Apple Taps Security Experts Ahead Of Lion OS Release

Apple is distributing copies of its yet unreleased OS X 10.7 Lion operating system to a handful of security experts, including former Pwn2Own winner, Charlie Miller, who claims this is the first time Apple has taken such actions, according to a report from PC World. The move, believed to be a fir...

Geohot Will Try His Hacking Skills On Windows Phone 7 !

Geohot has been causing quite a disturbance due to his ongoing legal battle with Sony. Geohot jailbroke the Sony PS3 to run unsigned code. Sony is now suing him, and Geohot is under the tech industry's spotlight more than ever. So, what does all this have to do with Windows Phone 7? Microsoft has...

Microsoft Releases Zero IE8 Security Updates Before "Pwn2Own" !

Microsoft has opted not to release any patches to its Internet Explorer 8 browser prior to this year's Pwn2Own browser exploit challenge, which is set to run from March 9 to March 11 at the CanSecWest security conference. There's been no indication as to why Microsoft's not making one last effort...

Google & Mozilla Patches Browsers Before Pwn2Own Hacker Contest !

Now that the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest is around the corner, both Google and Mozilla are busy patching flaws in their respective browsers to appear competent in the contest. Both internet giants have reportedly updated their browsers for the contest that is due to take place next week at the...

Google Bets $20k Against the Field at 2011 Pwn2Own

Google has announced plans to pay $20,000 to anyone who can successfully exploit a vulnerability in their Chrome browser and infiltrate a Cr-48 Chrome Notebook. Google’ is offering the cash prize as part of Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2POwn contest which will be taking place March 9-11 during the 20...

Google bets $20000 that Chrome browser can not be hacked !

Google will pay $ 20,000 for the first scientist who succeeds in its Chrome browser to exploit this year's competition Pwn2Own piracy. The price is the largest ever to face the annual challenge, which begins for the fifth time in the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia,...

Microsoft Internet Explorer MSADO CacheSize Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability was submitted to the ZDI via at the annual Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2010:0358-2)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. MFSA 2010-33 / CVE-2008-5913: Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2010:0358-2)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. MFSA 2010-33 / CVE-2008-5913: Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2010:0358-2)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. MFSA 2010-33 / CVE-2008-5913: Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once...

firefox: arbitrary code execution via memory corruption

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collectio...

FreeBSD Ports: firefox

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID ec8f449f-40ed-11df-9edc-000f20797ede OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from VID ec8f449f-40ed-11df-9edc-000f20797ede Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc...

Apple Patches Pwn2Own Flaw That Hacked Safari

Apple today shipped a patch to fix the drive-by download vulnerability used by Charlie Miller left to hack a fully patched MacBook via the Safari browser. Miller’s hack was part of this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest where Apple’s flagship browser fell for the third straight year. In the attac...

Monetary Value of Vulnerabilities Still High

The Pwn2Own contest is probably the best theoretical situation to show the damage that can be caused by skilled, dedicated attackers. However, throughout the contest, many researchers say the cash and hardware prizes were not enough to get them to give up “high-value” browser vulnerabilities. The...

ASLR + DEP Bypass Puts Hackers Ahead

When Microsoft shipped Windows Vista, the addition of security technologies like ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization alongside DEP Data Execution Prevention and SafeSEH were held up as major roadblocks to hacker attacks. With every new service pack of OS upgrade, these mitigations got stronge...

Google Chrome Survives: Most Secure? Nope

The only browser that survived Pwn2Own this year was Google Chrome. This led to numerous news reports like this one suggesting that Google’s browser was somehow more secure than the others. This is far from the truth. In fact, the vulnerability that caused the iPhone’s downfall was in the WebKit...

10 Lessons From The Pwn2Own Hacker Contest

The recent CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest saw successful hacking attacks against Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari and iPhone products. Now that the dust has settled and the vendors are starting to patch the vulnerabilities, Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine takes a look ...

MS Patch Tuesday Heads-up: 11 Bulletins, 25 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft plans to release 11 security bulletins on Tuesday April 13, 2010 to fix multiple vulnerabilities that expose Windows users to remote code execution attacks. Five of the 11 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. The flaws affect all versions of Windows,...

Mozilla Plugs Firefox Pwn2Own Security Hole

Mozilla is the first browser vendor to fix a vulnerability exploited at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. Just one week after a U.K.-based hacker known as “Nils” broke into a 64-bit Windows 7 machine with a Firefox vulnerability, the open-source group shipped Firefox 3.6.3 to plug the...