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All major web browsers hacked in 1 day - PWN2OWN

Friday, 20 March, 2009

Post by Luke McCallum

Hackers attending PWN2OWN at the CanSecWest security conference have blasted all major web browsers from Microsift, Mozilla & Apple with Apples Safari the first browser to be hacked.

The exploit was exposed within seconds of the competition with a top prize of $10,000 opening.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, touted by Steve Ballmer as having "protection that no other browser can match", also fell on day one. HA!

Mozilla's Firefox was also broken with a zero-day flaw.

The only browser to come out of day one completely unscathed was Google Chrome. Go Google!

PWN2Own Rules

Labels: hacking, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, PWN2OWN

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