Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Mar 2009 06:44 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
As he had already predicted, cracker Charlie Miller has won the PWN2OWN contest by cracking Safari and Mac OS X within seconds of the start of the competition. "It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine," Miller said after his accomplishment. He took home the USD 10000 prize, as well as the MacBook he performed the exploit on. Internet Explorer 8 fell a while later by cracker Nils, who also cracked Safari and Firefox after being done with IE8.
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RE[5]: Comment by Hakime
by PlatformAgnostic on Thu 19th Mar 2009 20:10
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Well, it's quite possible the other guys had also prepared for the browsers they worked on.
All of them had. The ones that didn't win didn't have any good exploit or had one but a recent patch had fixed it.
Nobody can find and exploit a bug in minutes, or even hours unless the bug is very noobish and can be found easily.
It's not 1983 anymore.
I am sincerely surprised by IE8/Win7 both falling. While IE8 was bound to be broken as any other browser, I thought IE in windows Vista+ ran in sandbox mode, or is that something you have to enable?
Maybe the sandbox isn't sandproof?