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Contest organizers this year increased sixfold the prizes given out for successful zero-day browser exploits during the CanSecWest security conference, but wound up with just one more exploit to show for it.
By Tim Greene | 14 March, 2012 01:30
VANCOUVER -- Dueling browser-exploit contests at the CanSecWest conference yielded immediate results -- two hacks against Google Chrome -- with contestants in both competitions demonstrating exploits within an hour of the contests' opening.
By Tim Greene | 09 March, 2012 02:35
Apple today patched a critical Mac OS X vulnerability used by a security researcher three weeks ago to win $10,000 for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own contest.
By Gregg Keizer | 15 April, 2010 07:56
Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today.
By Gregg Keizer | 01 April, 2010 06:38
Just days after a pair of researchers outwitted major Windows 7 defenses to exploit Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox, Microsoft said the measures aren't meant to "prevent every attack forever."
By Gregg Keizer | 29 March, 2010 22:15
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