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<title>Chrome OS endures exploit contest, Chrome browser fails</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/10/bounties.paid.for.internet.explorer.firefox.java.vulnerabilities/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362658298_Android-malware-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google's Chrome OS managed to evade all intrusion attempts during the most recent Pwnium hacking competition. While Chrome OS survived intact, Chrome the web browser joined Firefox and Internet Explorer in being shown vulnerable to attack from hackers, during the Pwn2Own contest held at the CanSecWest security conference at the same time....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google patches first major Chrome exploit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/09/google.chrome.gets.immediate.security.patch/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/googlechromeos-nov.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google sent word that it had already patched the Chrome exploit demonstrated in CanSecWest's Pwn2Own side contest, Pwnium.  Linux, Mac, and Windows versions, along with the Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer, should all be secure today.  It's now known to have involved universal cross-site scripting and "bad history navigation," although wider details wouldn't be published until most users ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Chrome compromised in five minutes at Pwn2Own</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/07/chrome.security.breached.almost.immediately/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/googlechromeos-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google saw an end to a brief streak on Wednesday after CanSecWest's organizers confirmed that Chrome had been hacked during the Pwn2Own contest.  Team Vupen exploited a security hole in the browser within five minutes of the contest's start.  The group will be getting at least a $60,000 prize, funded partly by Google itself, as well as 32 points in the still-ongoing contest; it had already found t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pwn2Own gets 'live' exploit tests, Google boasts Chrome safe</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/24/pwn2own.will.not.allow.pre.made.exploits/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/googlechromeos-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Tipping Point's Pwn2Own security contest is changing its methodology in a way that could break from "sensationalist" headlines, the company's security team lead Aaron Portnoy explained.  When it takes place at CanSecWest in March, the hacking competition as explained to PC Advisor would partly switch to an on-the-spot contest where teams didn't have to have ready-made hack by the time they got to ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>RIM urges users to disable JavaScript in light of exploit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/17/rim.tells.os.6.users.to.turn.off.javascript/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1008/blackberrytorch-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A recent zero-day BlackBerry 6 hack at the Pwn2Own convention has prompted RIM to add a knowledge base article that will help users secure their phones. The approach is blunt and calls on users to turn off JavaScript for the browser until RIM develops a more permanent fix.  Older versions aren't known to be affected....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IE9 not affected by Pwn2Own hacks</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/11/ie9.set.for.official.release.on.monday/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1103/ie9-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft used a tweet to confirm that its Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is not affected by the browser vulnerabilities used in the Pwn2Own contest to hack IE8. IE8 was hacked using an exploit devised by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security. Fewer's code circumvented IE8's Protected Mode which is actually supposed to isolate the browser from the OS to stop such attacks....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hackers attack Safari on MacBook to win Pwn2Own</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/09/team.exploits.webkit.vulnerability/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1010/macbookair2010-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Security researches from the French company Vupen hacked a MacBook running Safari to win the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest this week at the CanSecWest security conference. The group discovered and exploited an unpatched vulnerability in Safari's WebKit engine. The browser was directed to a website designed to take advantage of the flaw, enabling the hackers to remotely launch the calculator appli...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Geohot to hack Windows Phone 7 at Pwn2Own</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1102/dellvenueprolivein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[At the fifth annual Pwn2Own competition next week, George Hotz (Geohot) will attempt to use his hacking skills that landed him in hot water with Sony to win prizes. This year's target platform will be Windows Phone 7, though other devices and operating systems will also take part. An attack will be judged successful if little or no user (owner) interaction is required and useful data is taken or a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iPhone's SMS cracked in 20 seconds at Pwn2Own</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/24/researchers.break.iphones.text.messaging/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1003/ralfphilippweinmann.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[TippingPoint Zero-Day Initiative this evening confirmed that the iPhone's SMS database has been compromised at the annual CanSecWest conference's Pwn2Own contest.  Zynamics' Vincenzo Iozzo and the University of Luxembourg's Ralf Philipp Weinmann (pictured) used a malicious website in Safari to deliver a payload that could then upload the SMS logs to a remote site.  The entire compromise took place...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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