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Title: Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $62.5K, praises Apple's security
Post by: HCK on March 18, 2014, 02:00:02 pm
Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $62.5K, praises Apple's security

Some of his prize money will go to families of the missing Malaysian airline.

<p>FORTUNE -- Everybody's Web software got "pwned" at the Pwn2Own hackers conference this week: Apple's (AAPL) Safari, Google's (GOOG) Chrome, Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Adobe's (ADBE) Reader and Flash.</p>
<p>Chrome was hacked by a French team from Vupen Security with a use-after-free vulnerability that affects both the WebKit and Blink rendering engines.</p>
<p>Safari was defeated by Liang Chen, one of a MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/14/apple-china-hackers-safari/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=136349&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/hj9jF7apwak" height="1" width="1"/>

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