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Several White Hat hackers demonstrated their work on Apple OS X and Safari, including hacks that achieved root access at this year's Pwn2Own contest, winning one hacker $60,000. PING!

Apple OS X and Safari fall in Pwn2Own 2016
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2 posted on
03/18/2016 2:13:31 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
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These vulnerabilities and exploits represent months of work for the hackers who demonstrate them and are not the effort of just a few minutes at the conference. The code used and flaws will be disclosed to the publishers responsible so the flaws can be quickly closed before publication.
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03/18/2016 2:17:10 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
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