At a conference on computer security CanSecWest in Vancouver started the popular competition hackers Pwn2Own.
the first day of the experts have successfully hacked brauzerySafari and Internet Explorer 8.
Chrome hacking attempts were unsuccessful, despite the fact that Google has established an additional prize of 20 thousand dollars to anyone who can find vulnerabilities in the system.
Notebook Apple MacBook with an installed version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard experts from France were able to break for five seconds - for access to computer hackers took advantage of previously unknown security vulnerability in the browser Safari.
for burglary, they used a specially created website. Five seconds after the opening of this web page in a browser hackers managed to gain control over the computer, run the calculator on it and save to your hard disk file.
Frenchmen went to the Grand Prize - 15 thousand dollars. Organizers also presented them with a broken laptop.
Hacking Internet Explorer 8 was conducted by Stephen Fever from the organization Harmony Security. During the attack we used 32-bit browser running on a 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
Repeating history of burglary Safari, after opening a specially designed web pages organized by launching the calculator and the recorded file on disk.
Apple MacBook hacked in five seconds
The development of techniques of attack Internet Explorer took 5-6 weeks, and Safari - 2 weeks of the expert group VUPEN.