http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/164680.asp By Andrea James The Microsoft Blog Seattlepi.com March 20, 2009 A 25-year-old German graduate student who goes only by Nils has hacked Internet Explorer 8, along with Safari and Firefox, at CanSecWest's hacking competition. CanSecWest is a security conference that is being held at the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Microsoft is one of 16 listed sponsors. The conference started Monday and ends today. The hacking competition is just one portion of a larger conference, but it gets most of the attention. This year, the hackers set to crack the major Internet browsers and mobile devices such as the Blackberry, iPhone, G1 Android phone and other smart phones. Nils exploited all three of the browsers within 30 minutes, a conference spokeswoman said. "He hasn't told everybody his last name. Everybody's been trying to get contact information, and he wont give his last name," conference spokeswoman Melissa Pelto said. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Mon Mar 23 2009 - 02:21:09 PDT
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