At Pwn2Own, Browser Exploits Getting Harder, More Expensive to Find
VANCOUVER--The Pwn2Own contest has evolved in many ways over the years, from new rules to new targets to larger prizes, but perhaps the one thing that has changed the most is that the researchers who show up here every year hoping to go home with a bag full of money are having to spend more and more time finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in the browsers and plug-ins in play. The research team at VUPEN, which successfully compromised Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 spent several months finding the flaws they used and writing the expoits.
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At Pwn2Own, Browser Exploits Getting Harder, More Expensive to Find