Sunday, March 22, 2015

Hackers win $557,500 in bug bounties for 21 critical bugs in top four web browsers

Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE – All Browsers Hacked at Pwn2Own Competition - Hacker News

Sponsored by HP's Zero Day Initiative program, the Pwn2Own Hacking Competition ran two days at a security conference in Vancouver, Canada. The final highlights for Pwn2Own 2015 are quite impressive:

  • 5 bugs in the Windows operating system
  • 4 bugs in Internet Explorer 11
  • 3 bugs in Mozilla Firefox
  • 3 bugs in Adobe Reader
  • 3 bugs in Adobe Flash
  • 2 bugs in Apple Safari
  • 1 bug in Google Chrome
  • $557,500 USD bounty paid out to researchers

The star of the show was South Korean security researcher Jung Hoon Lee, nicknamed "lokihardt," who worked alone and nabbed the single highest payout of the competition in the Pwn2Own history, an amazing bounty of $110,000 in just two minutes.