Researchers crack protection Galaxy S4 and iPhone - NU.nl

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was done as part of the famous Pwn2Own contest, where tens of thousands of dollars in prize money would be paid to people who leaks in software from prominent companies can find.

A Japanese team earned $ 40,000 by bypassing the security of a Galaxy S4 and steal, so data from the device answers The Register .

The user only had to visit to make.

the device vulnerable to a specially built for the competition website

A Chinese team was able to exploit to steal. login details of Facebook a leak in iOS 7.0.3 They also managed to steal a device with iOS 6.1.4.

together accounted for a reward of $ 27,500. Had to be clicked on a malicious link. Also in this hack The security of the iPhone as a whole was not cracked.

As part of the competition are Samsung and Apple in detail informed about the problems with their software. Presumably, both companies will soon remedy the problems