In the eternal war between crackers and security professionals, the hackers have won the latest battle.
At the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, the HP Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) annual Pwn2Own competition has ended its first day of competition and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 10, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox Web browsers have all been cracked. In addition, Java—can anyone be surprised at this?–was also cracked multiple times.