Smartphones escape Pwn2Own unhacked
Hackers taking part in a friendly competition aimed at highlighting OS and software vulnerabilities did some real damage to a variety of computer-based web browsers — including Safari, which took all of 10 seconds to bust on a MacBook — but where smartphones are concerned, the hackers were stumped. The competition took place at CanSecWest in Vancouver, Canada and big cash prizes were up for grabs. In fact, each successful execution of an attack on a smartphone was worth a cool $10,000. Apparently the closest someone came however, was a BlackBerry Bold exploit attempt that failed despite reportedly having worked on a Storm in the past. There was also an exploit performed on Safari for Mac that is thought to work on the iPhone as well but the iPhone hack was not attempted; the rules of the contest stated that each exploit could be used only once. In the end, not a single contestant was able to crack a smartphone during the two-day hackathon. Good news though, hackers, as CanSecWest and ZDI have already stated that smartphones will be included once again in next year’s competition. That gives you about 12 months to hone those skills and put those tiny mobile processors to work.
[Via heise online]
PS3 hacking 2011?
2nd!!
Congratulations David
i know what this means to me…only downloading apps from the winmo app store!
Wow that means these smartphones are really smart they cannot be hacked..
Sent via BlackBerry.
And iphones umm suck!
( Flame War! )
The iphone hack was unattempted apparently cuz the guy wanted more money to perform it
And even if smartphone platforms get more targed and less secure in the future, if you use Palm OS, nobody will ever care enough to even bother trying to hack you! Go obsolete technology!
Isn’t this on page 4 of crackberry.com’s news?
wait he did not attemt the iphon hack cause he wanted more money? the moment that hack is sucessfull he should ge the whole days worth of cash.
u couldnt do the safari hack on an iphone because the same hack worked on mac os..
Haha* Awww!! Geekers are too adorable; but this sounds like a pretty interesting event to partake in. Geeker Olympics.
Actually there were two reasons. One, the mobile version of safari uses a modified version of webkit. Yes, it would be the same premise to infiltrate the security hole, but the iPhone lacks the back end capabilities for the hole to be exploited for anything very useful. Sure, you can open the door, but there’s a brick wall behind it.
The second is, if he used the same hack on the iPhone that he did on the Mac, he wouldn’t get paid – but not performing any hack doesn’t get him paid either. And next year, your going to have everyone already know about the hole and it might get patched before then. So he might as well have used it now.
That guy looks like McLovin’s stunt double.