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Toronto Pwn2Own hacking contest awards over $980,000 to bug hunters

Security researchers picked up US$989,750 in prizes for demonstrating 63 unique zero day vulnerabilities in consumer and small office products during the four-day Toronto...

Are iPhones riskier than Android, Blackberry and Nokia?

iPhones appear to pose greater security risks than Android, Blackberry and Nokia smart phones, but is this really the case? An nCircle survey says yes, security expert Charlie Miller says not necessarily, and Pwn2Own sponsor TippingPoint won't say

Pwn2Own winner tells Apple, Microsoft to find their own bugs

The only researcher to "three-peat" at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Charlie Miller said that security is such a "broken record" that he won't hand over 20 vulnerabilities he's found in Apple's, Adobe's and Microsoft's software.

iPhone falls in Pwn2Own hacking contest

Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann scored US$15,000 at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest for bypassing tough security measures introduced in iPhone 2.0. It is the first fully functioning attack on an iPhone since Apple released version 2 in 2008, said Charlie Miller.

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