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Every Smartphone OS Endures Pwn2Own Unhacked [Haxx]
Gizmodo — ... for researchers to come with exploits—for instance, one crafted for the Storm, which wasn't in the competition, actually didn't work on the Bold. So the multiplicity of phones out there is actually a good thing security-wise, though it makes more monolithic platforms, like the iPhone a more attractive target—kinda like Windows' juggernaut-size makes it a bigger target for exploits than Mac or Linux. That said, I don't think the survival rate will be so great next year. [Computerworld via ...

Major smartphone platforms emerge unscathed from Pwn2Own
Engadget — Sure seems like your handheld is a lot more secure than your computer, at least in some sense -- although the desktop versions of IE 8, Safari, and Firefox were each almost instantly cracked on the first day of the Pwn2Own contest, no one claimed the $10,000 bounty placed on each of the major smartphone platforms. That's certainly reassuring, but it may not ultimately mean much: according to contest organizers Tipping Point, the bugs in Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and the iPhone and BlackBerry OSes are still there, but they're harder to exploit because of device, OS, and carrier variations. That makes any vulnerabilities even more valuable -- one of the contestents apparently had an iPhone exploit ready to go, but ...

Pwn2Own contest winner: Macs are safer than Windows
AppleInsider — ... some point this year after it is released for desktop and full sized notebook users. Mac versus iPhone security Despite having some of the same Safari-related vulnerabilities as the Mac, the iPhone was not exploited during the CanSecWest contest, even though the contest held out a $10,000 prize for cracking smartphones, double that offered for cracking desktop systems. Speaking of an exploit that a researcher had successfully used against Safari on the Mac, Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Inc.'s TippingPoint security group, told Computerworld , "People ...