iOS 7, Galaxy S4 and Chrome felled at Pwn2Own - Macworld

Nov 14. 2013 Jasper Bakker Google+

Nov 14. 2013 Jasper Bakker Google+

News – The infamous Pwn2Own hacking contest is right major casualties on the first two days. iPhones, iPads, Samsung smartphones and Chrome on Android are vulnerable.

Hackers have the Pwn2Own contest 0-days and new exploit techniques used to crack their targets and take (pwn). about On the first day of the competition, which was held in Japan, has been Apple’s Safari web browser on iOS 6 and 7 for the ax. In addition, Android Apps Samsung hacked, that a Galaxy S4 smartphone gepwned.

Ingrained browsers as weaknesses

Then on the second day compromised Google’s Chrome browser running on a Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4. The Chrome-known hacker Pinkie Pie has once again found holes in the browser and thus cracked the Android smartphones in two steps. All holes and found the way to make abuse of it through Pwn2Own organizer HP transmitted to the affected vendors.

The Nexus 4 cases on Pwn2Own hacks through 0-days: the

In the case of Apple’s mobile platform, both the current version 7.0.3 cracked as the latest 6.1.4 release of the previous version series. This is done on an iPhone 5, via the built-in Safari. An attacker could steal away here along the whole of the browser cookie database, including login details for Facebook. In addition, thieves with all the images that are stored on the smartphone.

Samsung Apps compromise Galaxy’s

In the case of the Galaxy S4 hack is not the underlying operating system Android cracked, but the hackers of the Japanese company Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions for the installed Samsung Apps caught. Thanks vulnerabilities in the default apps present there is silently install. Their own app This malicious software can steal user data, including text messages, address book and the list of visited websites.

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