PATREONItems tagged with Browser vulnerabilities
No less than three different browser platforms have succumbed to zero-day exploits by the end of the first day of the three-day long, third-annual Pwn2Own contest being held at the CanSecWest 2009 digital security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Safari on Mac OS X was the first to fall, followed by Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) on Windows 7, and then a second Mac OS X Safari exploit, and finally Firefox (the specific OS-version of Firefox was not supplied in the announcement). Making this even more impressive is that the first winner of the day, Charlie Miller, was the same guy who was the first winner in last year's contest; and the three additional exploits from day one were all cracked...
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