Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari Cracked In China's White-Hat Hacker Competition (ibtimes.com) 17
An anonymous reader quotes the International Business Times:
At the recent Tianfu cup held in Chengdu, China, Chinese China's top white-hat hackers have converged to test zero-days against top software available in the market today. During the first day of the event, Chinese security researchers were able to break into major browsers such as Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome.
Since March 2018, the Chinese government has officially discouraged security researchers from joining hacking competitions outside the county. The recent Tianfu Cup is the venue for hackers to showcase their skills and even earn six-figure bounties for successful exploits. Former Pwn2Own winner Team 360 Vulcan took home $382,500 for successfully hacking the old version of Office 365, Microsoft Edge, Adobe PDF Reader, VMWare Workstation, and gemu+ Ubuntu during the two days event, reports ZDNet... Search engine giant Google has a representative in the event with some members of the Google Chrome security team present on site. Organizers plan to submit a report of all bugs uncovered during the event to all vendors when the competition concludes, says ZDNet.
Since March 2018, the Chinese government has officially discouraged security researchers from joining hacking competitions outside the county. The recent Tianfu Cup is the venue for hackers to showcase their skills and even earn six-figure bounties for successful exploits. Former Pwn2Own winner Team 360 Vulcan took home $382,500 for successfully hacking the old version of Office 365, Microsoft Edge, Adobe PDF Reader, VMWare Workstation, and gemu+ Ubuntu during the two days event, reports ZDNet... Search engine giant Google has a representative in the event with some members of the Google Chrome security team present on site. Organizers plan to submit a report of all bugs uncovered during the event to all vendors when the competition concludes, says ZDNet.
Firefox? (Score:1)
The article doesn't mention Mozilla Firefox at all. Was it not among the browsers challenged, or was it not hacked?
Re: (Score:2)
Or are they just saving those exploits, since Firefox is the browser used by people trying to keep secrets? Well, A browser, anyway, and most of the other ones people use to try to protect privacy are based on old versions of Firefox.
Yea!!!! (Score:1)
Chinese China's? (Score:5, Funny)
At the recent Tianfu cup held in Chengdu, China, Chinese China's top white-hat hackers have converged to test zero-days
Thanks for clarifying. Don't want readers to get confused and think it was Portuguese China's top white-hat hackers
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Lol I was along the same lines
Do other countries follow that paradigm?
If I moved to China would I be an American Chinese?
Re: (Score:2)
China thinks long term to 2100 when every nation will really just be a province of China.
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Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)
eye of the beholder (Score:3)
Just another victim of for-profit news. (Score:3)
It's only evil people and surprise traps and catastrophes and wars and threats.
After a while, this is how people end up.
The solution is to go outside, meet real people, and do something fulfilling with tangible results, like gardening or woodwork
Re: eye of the beholder (Score:2)
sounds like you have trust issues.
So says the AC.
Winning has become easy... (Score:2)
Former Pwn2Own winner Team 360 Vulcan took home $382,500 for successfully hacking the old version of Office 365, Microsoft Edge, Adobe PDF Reader, VMWare Workstation, and gemu+ Ubuntu
Seriously, hacking an OLD VERSION of software qualifies you to earn money? Good news, everbody! I cracked the AACS encryption scheme [wikipedia.org]! The code is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0! Where's my $382,000???
White hat? (Score:3)
Can a security researcher presenting browser cracks at a competition in a totalitarian surveillance state still qualify as a "white hat"?
Serious money (Score:2)