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  • Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $40K, praises Apple's security

    03/15/2014 3:47:15 PM PDT · by Swordmaker · 13 replies
    CNN Tech Fortune ^ | March 14, 2014: 12:07 PM ET | By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    Some of his prize money will go to families of the missing Malaysian airline. Keen Team's Chen, right, demonstrating an Adobe Flash exploit FORTUNE -- Everybody's Web software got "pwned" at the Pwn2Own hackers conference this week: Apple's (AAPL) Safari, Google's (GOOG) Chrome, Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Adobe's (ADBE) Reader and Flash. Chrome was hacked by a French team from Vupen Security with a use-after-free vulnerability that affects both the WebKit and Blink rendering engines. Safari was defeated by Liang Chen, one of a pair Chinese Keen Team hackers, using a heap-overflow-and-sandbox-bypass combination that took three months...