[ISN] Safari, IE hacked first at Pwn2Own

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:20:13 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214002/Safari_IE_hacked_first_at_Pwn2Own

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
March 9, 2011

Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) both fell to the 
first hackers who tried their luck on the browsers at Wednesday's 
opening day of Pwn2Own.

The hacking challenge kicked off at 3:30 p.m. PT, slightly later than 
scheduled, at the CanSecWest security conference, which runs March 9-11 
in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A team from the French security company Vupen walked off with $15,000 
and a new MacBook Air after exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in 
Safari.

Earlier today, Apple updated Safari to version 5.0.4, fixing 62 
vulnerabilities. But Vupen was still able to break the browser.

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