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20 Mar 2009, 10:09 pm

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... Id=9130074

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Just hours before Microsoft Corp. officially launched the final code for Internet Explorer 8, a German researcher yesterday hacked the browser during the PWN2OWN contest to win $5,000 and a Sony Viao laptop.

The researcher, a computer science student from Germany who would only give his first name, Nils, broke into the Sony within minutes by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in the new browser,


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20 Mar 2009, 11:00 pm

Shocking.



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20 Mar 2009, 11:56 pm

I would never have expected it. :roll:


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21 Mar 2009, 3:23 am

But Its Microsoft how could this happen 8O


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21 Mar 2009, 8:30 am

Good job, Nils! Continue the good work of finding theses things! And convert or spend the $15,000 before they completely lose their value! :wink:


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21 Mar 2009, 10:33 am

its only a sony vaio,better off spending the money prize on a more reliable sturdier lt instead.


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21 Mar 2009, 1:44 pm

One wonders how they will be with deficiencies in Mozilla Firefox, when a larger and larger population, the use of this browser.

This will also reasons for individuals to invest time to find gaps in this browser.



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21 Mar 2009, 9:11 pm

Yohn wrote:
One wonders how they will be with deficiencies in Mozilla Firefox, when a larger and larger population, the use of this browser.

This will also reasons for individuals to invest time to find gaps in this browser.


FF can automatically update itself without some scary WGA. So it probably won't be as glaringly insecure as the IEs I encountered so far.


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24 Mar 2009, 3:48 am

Have a cry, people. Firefox, Opera and Safari got hacked at the same contest as well. Geez. *grumbles at bigotry*


(Also, I'm a Firefox user. Thought I'd point that out before ya'll get up on a soapbox calling me a fanboy).



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24 Mar 2009, 5:16 am

There has never been a browser without any gaps or bugs.

IE 8 will be great browser some day



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24 Mar 2009, 7:06 am

Ashton wrote:
Have a cry, people. Firefox, Opera and Safari got hacked at the same contest as well. Geez. *grumbles at bigotry*


(Also, I'm a Firefox user. Thought I'd point that out before ya'll get up on a soapbox calling me a fanboy).

I don't remember the article mentioning any Opera vulnerabilities. It said they found two IE flaws, and one each for FF and Safari.


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24 Mar 2009, 7:55 am

Orwell wrote:
Ashton wrote:
Have a cry, people. Firefox, Opera and Safari got hacked at the same contest as well. Geez. *grumbles at bigotry*


(Also, I'm a Firefox user. Thought I'd point that out before ya'll get up on a soapbox calling me a fanboy).

I don't remember the article mentioning any Opera vulnerabilities. It said they found two IE flaws, and one each for FF and Safari.


Yeah, you're right, sorry, wrote Opera by pure habit, lol.

Still, I don't understand why people b***h and moan about how bad of a browser IE is (and on this board, usually by Linux fanboys who think MS is the spawn of satan himself) without getting their facts straight on Firefox and Safari. It *really* annoys me.



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24 Mar 2009, 8:33 am

Ashton wrote:
Still, I don't understand why people b***h and moan about how bad of a browser IE is (and on this board, usually by Linux fanboys who think MS is the spawn of satan himself) without getting their facts straight on Firefox and Safari. It *really* annoys me.

No OS and no browser is perfectly secure. But, some are worse than others. Windows is less secure than Linux, IE is less secure than FF. There's also probably some residual bitterness towards MS over the "browser wars."

I hate Safari. It's a piece of crap next to FF. It has very few features that I want, and its default behavior is annoying. I didn't even like Safari when I was solely a Mac user.


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24 Mar 2009, 11:54 am

ZDnet has an interview with Nils: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2951
According to him, IE8 was actually the hardest browser to hack. He also says it is much easier to write exploits for OS X than Vista.

Another interview, this time with Charlie Miller, also an interesting read:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941



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24 Mar 2009, 2:30 pm

Linux is almost virtually unhackable.
It is hackable but since it is so hard no one attempts to try.



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24 Mar 2009, 2:45 pm

Remember people. An operating system is designed to have better software installed... If this was NOT the case, there would be no other media players, browsers, office packages, etc. I prefer IE6 as it looks better, I REFUSE to upgrade to IE7 on my other computer. There is never no harm in having more than one browser in case one screws up