The Safari browser hacked in 10 seconds
Posted on : 20-03-2009 | By : Ramakanth | In : Security, Web Browsers, mac
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The Safari browser was hacked in 10 seconds by Charlie Miller a security researcher at contest Pwn2Own 2009 organized by CanSecWest.
“It is not easy, but works with a single click, “he said after hacking safari in 10secs.
Miller took $ 5000 and the MacBook he exploited, a good prize and hope that the vulnerability does not cause much damage because many people use mac.
Miller is a principal analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, as its name suggests, it is a security consulting firm and he managed to win for the second consecutive year for hacking a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browse .
Things were also not better for the other two competing browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which were also exploted from another competitor “Nils”.
“Nils” a security researcher got sony vaio and a cash prize for hacking sony vaio running on Windows7 os by exploiting a security vulnerability in IE8 browser .He also exploited Firefox and Apple’s safari browser.
From this test we can understand regardless of software or os,we never know too much about security that we use to Navigate,at last we can say that no network is safe.
Via Zdnet
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