Pwn2Own 2011 is here and for those who are unaware of what this is, basically some of the greatest minds in the in technology come together to try and hack devices and software to prove and show vulnerabilities in some of the technology out there. I wanted to share some highlights I found so far. First Research in Motion has a new webkit browser for the Blackberry. A three man team was able to hack this browser and able to hack the device and steal the contact list and image database. IE8 on Windows 7 was found to have three vulnerabilities on a 64-bit SP1 version of Windows 7. Believe or not thought the first product to be hacked was a Macbook. The firm VUPEN was the company who was able to find the vulnerabilities in the Safari browser which they were able to than hijack the machine.
Now don?t freak out about this. The reason this happens is so they can all make their products better. Anyone was able to hack a product won a prize and shared the information of the vulnerabilities so the companies could fix the issues. Most of these are already being fixed as speak they have not already been placed in updates already. So there you go sometimes hacking can be positive.