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Wednesday 18 March 2009

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

A security researcher named “Nils” (he declined to provide his full name) performed a clean drive-by download attack against the world’s most widely used browser to take full control of a Sony Vaio machine running Windows 7.

He won a cash prize and got to keep the hardware. Details of the vulnerability, which was described by contest sponsor TippingPoint ZDI as a “brilliant IE8 bug!” are being kept under wraps.


Read more
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934

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