As the second year under Trend Micro's ownership, the popular hacking event Pwn2Own is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. The targets this year include VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari. There are also demonstrations of local Escalation of Privilege bugs against Windows, … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own 2016 results
With some slight changes to Pwn2Own this year, the hacking event is underway with one day completed. Day One So far, there have been 6 attempts against the targets, which include VMware Workstation, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Adobe Flash, and Apple Safari. Out of those 6 attempts, 4 have been successful, 1 was partially successful (the exploit was previously reported), … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own gets revamped for 2016
Last Fall, TippingPoint was acquired by Trend Micro from Hewlett-Packard. As a major sponsor, this brought into question if Pwn2Own would continue. More details have been revealed to confirm that Pwn2Own 2016 will take place in conjunction with the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver. In addition to confirming Pwn2Own 2016, it was revealed that the hacking competition … [Read more...]