Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $62.5K, praises Apple's security

[Shadrack]

Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/14/apple-china-hackers-safari/

 

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 to perfect.

 

"For Apple, the OS is regarded as very safe and has a very good security architecture," Chen told ThreatPost's Michael Mimoso. "Even if you have a vulnerability, it's very difficult to exploit. Today we demonstrated that with some advanced technology, the system is still able to be pwned. But in general, the security in OS X is higher than other operating systems."

[vanx]

Already mentioned in FPN: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1205093-every-browser-falls-at-this-years-record-setting-pwn2own/

[Kalint]

Every year usually all browsers get spanked

[Shadrack]

Already mentioned in FPN: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1205093-every-browser-falls-at-this-years-record-setting-pwn2own/

 

An article about pwn2own was already posted, sure.  This is about a particular person who said something in an interview and was not covered in the FPN post.