Firefox Microsoft Apple PWN2OWN Contest
Mozilla Firefox body as if they beat both Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) in the PWN2OWN contest. Firefox is the first browser to a critical vulnerability patch used a week ago, and they look like they are winners of $ 5000 in a hacking contest.
Computer World explains that PWN2OWN competition took place last Thursday, when students from Germany, Nils cracked Sony laptop running on Microsoft Windows 7, it has done in the operation of a previously unknown bug in the new Internet Explorer 8. Nils was hungry for more than two hijacked and Apple’s Safari and Mozilla Firefox, both browsers were running on a MacBook.
Nils was paid $ 5,000 for each successful operation, which means it came out with $ 15,000 to sponsor s. 3Com Corp. Lucas Adamski, director of engineering for Mozilla security said that Firefox will now critical patch a vulnerability that was disclosed to their PWN2OWN to competition. [ via product-reviews ]
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