Descrier Hackers have successfully compromised all major web browsers as part of the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, with zero-day exploits demonstrated against Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Adobe Flash Player.
A group from French security research firm Vupen hacked Google Chrome by exploiting a use-after-free vulnerability that exists in both the WebKit and Blink rendering engines, and then successfully managed to bypass Chrome’s sandbox to execute code on the underlying PC.
George Hotz, known online as geohot, and security researchers Jüri Aedla and Mariusz Mlynski managed two separate exploits against Mozilla Firefox.
Researchers Sebastian Apelt and Andreas Schmidt demonstrated a browser-based exploit against IE, making use of two use-after-free vulnerabilities chained together along with a Windows kernel bug to execute remote code.
A hacking group known as Chinese Keen Team successfully exploited two vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari browser to execute arbitrary code on a Mac running a recent version of OS X.
The successful hackers have earned themselves prizes worth more than $450,000 (£270,000) from disclosing their exploits to the companies involved, who will now develop patches to secure their software.
http://descrier.co.uk/technology/2014/03/major-web-browsers-compromised-pwn2own-hacking-contest/
Great world we live in. Give someone $450,000 to do something illegal. Maybe they should give someone $450,000 to do something legal for a change.
NAH! That’s too radical of a thought. What was I thinking? Oh yea, that’s right. I was thinking. That’s radical in and of itself these days.
LOL really thanks for the laugh that last paragraph of yours is spot on.
Do not adjust you’re thoughts. We will adjust them for you.
Quote from Outer Limits: “Do not adjust you’re television set. We will adjust it for you” about the picture quality.
Damn these stupid math questions. I am always going to click post and these annoying questions pop up!
My parents latest Umbutu update for the last several months have been slow and sluggish. This last week several times they couldn’t log in at all or the internet would be slow as in dial up speed where my computer the internet was just fine other then a few hiccups.
My parents and I believe that the NSA and Big Brother are hacking into these web browsers to spy on those who are Conservatives and especially Tea Party members since they are standing up for smaller government and more freedom.
We are not politically active but Dad signed up several years ago back in the end of the *Bush era* before all this crap happened.
I personally think both the Tea Partiers and the Occupiers were designed from the ground up to spy on people to bring about the NWO hoping there would be civil disobidence and disorder so there would be a legit excuse to bring Martial Law.
It didn’t quite work out as planned so Obama is throwing a tantrum and messing with Russia *most likely to flush Snowden out*