External Link: Safari Cracked in 10 Seconds in Contest

ExtraBITS for 23-Mar-09
db.tidbits.com 3/23/2009 — Safari Exploited in 10 Seconds in Security Contest -- Security researcher Charlie Miller has cut his time to "pwn" (take full control of an operating system via an exploit) from 2 minutes to 10 seconds at the CanSecWest PWN2OWN contest. He was sitting on a previously discovered exploit that ...

IE8, Safari and Firefox all hacked at Pwn2Own — MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference, hackers successfully compromised fully-patched copies of Internet Explorer 8, Safari and Firefox, according to ZDNet. A MacBook running Safari was hacked in seconds by Charlie Miller, winning him the notebook and a $10,000 ...

There's a hole in Safari, dear Liza — The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Another year, another Pwn2Own at CanSecWest and Safari falls ... in a short time. Well, to be fair, Safari fell after 24 hours and "... a couple of seconds" give or take a few. On day two of the event the "attack surface" widens -- that is, hackers are given more ways to hijack the machine. ...

Safari successfully exploited in seconds in Pwn2Own contest — Infinite Loop

Putting his money where his mouth is, so to speak, security reseacher Charlie Miller exploited Safari in mere seconds to take control of a test MacBook in the Pwn2Own contest held during the CanSecWest security conference. In fact, he did so with a default configuration and all ...

Security Expert Hacks a Mac in Seconds — Cult of Mac

Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators , used a security exploit in Safari 4 to hack into a MacBook in about 10 seconds Wednesday, winning the Pwn2own contest at the CanSecWest security conference for the second year in a row. The security hole, ...