The contestants who successfully exploited 16 zero-day bugs within 16 different products in the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 first day won more than $800,000 in prize money. The product line includes:- Microsoft Windows 11 (OS) Microsoft Teams (communication platform) First Day: Microsoft Teams and Windows 11 Hacked In the enterprise communications category, Microsoft Teams was the […]
It has been just a few hours since the start of the Pwn2Own Austin 2021 hacking event and there have already been reports of severe vulnerabilities in commonly used devices, including security flaws in printers, presented at this type of event for the first time. Participating researchers have earned a total of $360,000 USD for […]
Hackathons happen to be an all-out favorite for the cybersecurity industry for their renewed sense of competing in real-time – testing your skillset against the best. Pwn2Own, one such yearly conference kicked off today in Tokyo with teams competing in exploiting bugs in the systems of well-reputed companies. Pwn2Own follows an infrastructure in which if […]
Pwn2Own 2019 has yet again proved that a secure system is nothing else but a myth. In its two days running, the contest has claimed many high-profile victims including the likes of Tesla, Firefox, and Safari. Pwn2Own is an annual hacking contest held in Vancouver alongside the CanSecWest conference. In the contest, hackers are required […]
Earlier this week, Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 kicked off with participants from all around the world. This year was the first time in the contest’s history to include an automotive category. The event was sponsored by Microsoft, VMware, and Tesla. Over the course of three days, numerous events were organized that took down various software and […]
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) vulnerability research contest Pwn2Own 2019 Successfully started its first-day contest and the team of researchers earned $240,000 in the first day alone for the successful zero-day Submissions. Trend Micro announced $1 million in cash and prizes through the contest for the researchers who submit the zero days the specific […]
Sponsors paid over $100k USD for iPhone X exploits The ethical hacking event Pwn2Own 2018, conducted in Tokyo, organized by Zero Day Initiative was a success, as reported by specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security. During the event, participating cybersecurity specialists earned more than $300k USD for disclosing flaws that […]
White hat hackers and IT security researchers have once again proved their elite skills at Pwn2Own 2018 after exposing critical security vulnerabilities in products developed by popular vendors like Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi. Pwn2Own is organized by cybersecurity giant Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative in Tokyo where hackers took part in exploiting zero-day flaws in products developed by […]
The white hat hackers at Pwn2Own 2018, have once again proved their elite skills and exposed critical security existing vulnerabilities in the products developed by popular vendors like Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Oracle. The Pwn2Own 2018 was organized by cybersecurity giant Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative at CanSecWest Vancouver, BC where hackers from all over the world took place […]
At the Mobile Pwn2Own competition 2017, white hat hackers managed to earn over half a million dollars after successfully proving the vulnerabilities present in Huawei’s Mate 9 Pro, Apple’s iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S8. Mobile Pwn2Own is a hacking contest held every year at the PacSec conference in Tokyo, Japan, by Trend Micro’s Zero […]
The annual mobile Pwn2Own zero-day competition has been renewed for the sixth time. So, we get to see new hacks for devices from leading brands like Apple, Samsung, etc. Earlier this year, at Pwn2Own, saw hackers taking down leading software like Ubuntu Linux, Safari, Adobe Reader, Edge, etc. This year’s mobile Pwn2Own puts upfront a total prize of […]
Hack worked by stitching together three separate exploits. Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: they compromised Microsoft’s heavily fortified Edge browser in a way that escapes a VMware Workstation virtual machine it runs in. The hack fetched a prize of $105,000, the highest awarded so […]
This year, the popular Pwn2Own event has $1,000,000 up for grabs from hackers. Among the pieces of software being targeted are Apple Safari, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Edge and the Adobe Reader. This year, there are 11 teams in the competition with 30 threats taking part. The event began on the 15th of March and is […]
Short Bytes: At the Trend Micro-sponsored Pwn2Own 2017 competition, the security researchers were able to hack many popular software and applications like Ubuntu, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Adobe Reader. This year’s hacking event features 11 contestant teams and 30 attempts in total. The Pwn2Own hacking competition began on March 15. It’s sponsored by the security firm […]
The Samsung Galaxy S5, Apple iPhone 5s and Google Nexus 5 were amongst handsets to be successfully hacked during the Mobile Pwn2Own hacking competition, reports Forbes.