Design/Logic Flaw

The Research In Motion RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 with firmware 6.0.0.246 allows attackers to read the contents of memory locations via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011...

iPhone, BlackBerry Fall on Second Day of Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–For the fourth consecutive year, researcher Charlie Miller won one of the prizes at the annual Pwn2Own contest here. The difference this time is that Miller successfully exploited an iPhone 4 to win, rather than Safari, which he’s gone after the last three years. The BlackBerry Torch 98...

CVE-2011-1347

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to bypass Protected Mode and create arbitrary files by leveraging access to a Low integrity process, as demonstrated by Stephen Fewer as the third of three chained vulnerabilities during a Pwn2Own...

CVE-2011-1346

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Stephen Fewer as the second of three chained vulnerabilities during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Stephen Fewer as the second of three chained vulnerabilities during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011...

CVE-2011-1344

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.5; iOS before 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod, and iPad; iOS before 4.2.7 for iPhone 4 CDMA; and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding children to a WBR tag and then removing the tag,...

CVE-2011-1347

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 is affected by a Protected Mode bypass vulnerability (CVE-2011-1347) that allowed an attacker to create arbitrary files by leveraging access to a Low integrity process, demonstrated during Pwn2Own 2011 by Stephen Fewer as the third of three chained vulne...

PT-2011-3075 · Apple +1 · Ios +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apple Safari versions prior to 5.0.5 iOS versions prior to 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod, and iPad iOS versions prior to 4.2.7 for iPhone 4 CDMA Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting a use-after-free...

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...

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...

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...

Kaspersky Lab forecast for the IT threat landscape 2011 – 2020 !

Kaspersky Lab has released its forecast for the IT threat landscape for this decade 2011 – 2020. Kaspersky bases this forecast on an analysis of the main changes and issues in the sphere of IT security over the past decade, as well as emerging trends in the development of personal computers, mobi...

Yahoo! Announces Hack U™ Spring 2011 Series !

Yahoo! is proud to announce the Hack U™ Spring 2011 calendar of events. Join Yahoo! web experts for a week of learning, hacking and fun! You'll hear interesting tech talks, hacking tips and lessons, and get hands-on coding workshops where you'll work with cutting-edge technology. The week's event...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

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,...

Spore's Failgonism

We were so excited about the release of Spore. Imagine: MMORPG that combined StarCraft-like interplanetary species competition with the principles of Darwinian evolution. Just cool! Too bad the actual game sucked so bad that barely anyone wanted to play it. Still, with the hundreds of millions of...

US recruiting young cyber warriors !

The United States is attractive for the abutting bearing of cyber warriors. The US Cyber Challenge Cyber Foundations competition, kicked off this anniversary by the nonprofit Centermost for Internet Aegis , is out to acquisition 10,000 acceptance with the abeyant to become "top accoutrements in...

New Contest To Promote Cyber Security Skills In Teens

Cyber security has been at the forefront of American politics in recent months following high profile cyber security attacks like the Stuxnet worm and Aurora attacks. Those attacks underscored growing concern over the future of cyber security in the U.S. and the lack of native cybersecurity talen...

Former British Labour cabinet minister says her phone was hacked !

LONDON: Former British cabinet minister confirmed that his work phone was cut 28 times - and now seek a court order to see if it happened again later that week. Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics minister, is the oldest politician so far to be sure that his phone message was kidnapped and has join...

Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page Hacked !

It turns out even if you own the Internet, you're still susceptible to malicious hackers. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to change Web addresses for his Facebook fan page late Tuesday night after a hacker appeared to gain access to the page and had the ability to write status messages on behalf...