Pwn2Own Contest 2010

Written by Jay on March 25, 2010 – -

Pwn2Own Contest 2010 – Pwn2Own recently had a contest for all hackers to try their best to hack into select programs and devices. And in this case, it was the iPhone, IE8, Firefox and Safari.

These contests always has the best of the best hackers from all over the country and they show up to try to hack the supposed “un-hackable” programs. Well, here are some of the results for the Pwn2Own Contest 2010:

- Pwn2Own MacBook attack: Charlie Miller hacks Safari again
- Peter Vreugdenhil exploits IE8 on Windows 7 to win Pwn2Own
- Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann hacked iPhone

Every hacker that successfully hacked into the programs were paid anywhere between $10,000 and $15,000. Not a bad days work if you ask me!

On top of that, some of the hackers were allowed to keep the hacked devices such as the iPhone.

Lucky them, huh?


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