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The next scheduled Pwn2Own hacking competition has lost Hewlett-Packard as its longstanding sponsor amid legal concerns that the company could run afoul of recent changes to an international ...
Security researcher Charlie Miller, who last year won $10,000 for hacking into a MacBook Air via Safari in just two minutes, says he thinks Safari will be the first browser to fall at this year's ...
Pwn2Own has never required that contestants give up such sandbox escapes. We do require that they demonstrate them, in order to verify that they did indeed "hack" the target, ...
PWN2OWN Vancouver 2022 has now come to an end with seven hackers picking up a total of $240,000 for successful Windows 11 zero-day exploits. The hacking competition saw Windows 11 successfully ...
Pwn2Own 2020. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has now officially announced the first Pwn2Own for 2020, to take part in Vancouver at CanSecWest, March 18-20. This time the stakes have been ...
It's win-win. Security researchers busted major web browsers during Pwn2Own to collect bounty payouts of $557,500, and vendors will make users safer when they patch the hackable flaws in Firefox ...
The first day of the 2019 Pwn2Own hacking competition saw researchers awarded a total of $240,000 for demonstrating new zero-day exploits in Apple Safari, Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.
Pwn2Own has targeted Apple’s macOS and Microsoft Windows based technologies for the past decade, but in 2017, the open-source Linux operating system has finally made the target list.
A team of security researchers from the French pen-testing firm VUPEN successfully exploited a zero-day flaw in Apple's Safari browser to win this year's Pwn2Own hacker challenge.
Pwn2Own, which is in its eighth year, will run March 12-13 at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Google will also be running its own Pwnium contest — which will ...
VANCOUVER–The Pwn2Own contest has evolved in many ways over the years, from new rules to new targets to larger prizes, but perhaps the one thing that has changed the most is that the researchers ...
A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a ...