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Galaxy S III hacked using NFC at Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest – ComputerworldUK

Galaxy S III hacked using NFC at Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest
ComputerworldUK
Pwn2Own hacking contest to break iPhone, Android securityHackers compete for $ 100,000 in prizes >>; Google ups ante to $ 2m for next Chrome hacking contestDoubles cash on offer from March Pwnium event >>; Google Android bug disclosure loses

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IE, Safari, iPhone, BlackBerry fall at Pwn2Own; Chrome, Firefox, Android, Windows Phone 7 escape – Washington Post

Pwn2Own — an annual computer-security contest in which researchers vie to win cash prizes and computer hardware by exploiting Web browsers — ended last week, and the results may surprise you. The first browser to get hacked was Apple’s Safari.
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Microsoft Releases Zero IE8 Security Updates Before “Pwn2Own” Browser Hacking Contest – PC Magazine

Mozilla fixed ten security flaws in Firefox—eight of which were rated … to run code and install software as if he or she was sitting in front of a compromised computer itself. Google fixed up 19 different vulnerabilities in its release of Chrome …
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Firefox Gets Security Fixes Ahead of PWN2OWN Contest – YAHOO!

An attacker could potentially have exploited this vulnerability by causing malicious code to be stored in memory for later execution on the host computer. Adobe Systems security researcher Peleus Uhley reported a cross-site request forgery (CSRF …
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