Pwn2Own 2011 has left BlackBerry users in shock. The hacking competition left the iPhone 4 and the BlackBerry Torch 9800 cracked in only the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking event. According to reports, the iPhone 4 was hacked using a browser flaw that Apple patched in iOS 4.3. The Torch 9800’s exploitation, came within the vulnerability in the Webkit browser. Both hacks won the contestants a total of $15,000 plus the device that they hacked. Normally BlackBerry escapes through Pwn2Own without a crack, until this year.
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RIM’s security response team was on hand while the hack was going on and their director of security response, Adrian Stone, said he would work to confirm if the vulnerability still exists in the latest OS. Stone had this to say to ZDNet: “It happens. It’s not what you want but there’s no such thing as zero code defects.”
Source:zdnet.com
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