In just two days, "Google Chrome", "Microsoft Explorer 10" and "Mozilla Fireforx" were hacked , besides engines, hackers and security hurdles mastered the "Java".
Prize fund of this year's competition hacker "Pwn2Own", which is held within the conference "CanSecWest" in Vancouver, Canada, is almost entirely wasted because hackers have won a total of 480,000 dollars, thanks to the decisive defeat of the software producers. Over the past two days have been hacked "Google Chrome", "Microsoft Explorer 10" and "Mozilla Firefox", besides engines, hackers and security hurdles mastered the "Java", "Adobe Flash Player" and "Adobe Reader" .
The only program, participating in the competition, which was not hacked during the contest is that the company Apple, "Safari" to "OS X Mountain Lion". Besides cash prizes, hackers will take all laptop computers into their homes that have managed to hack. "In the world of" Pwn2Own ", a successful attack means at the very consideration of indecent Internet content you can insert and activate arbitrary executable code outside of the browser," said Paul Daklin of "Sophos". "In the real world, this means you can perform" drive-by install "attack that will circumvent all safeguards preventive measures and pop-up warnings to the browser," he Daklin.
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