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Safari hole exploited in seconds at security conference
Closed Published March 19th, 2009 in Browser Security, Safari, Security
The security expert who won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes last year won $5,000 on Wednesday by exploiting a hole in Safari in 10 seconds or so.
Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, used a MacBook running the latest version of the Mac OS as part of a contest at the CanSecWest security conference called "Pwn2Own," which is hacker slang for gaining control of a computer. Safari hole exploited in seconds at security conference | Security – CNET News
