Pwn2Own

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 02:59:00 +0000

Our final day of Pwn2Own 2017 came to a close with some amazing research. The contest had never previously required a 3rd day of competition, but with our largest ever number of registrations, coinciding with our 10th anniversary, extending to include the extra entries proved more than worthwhile. Just today, we awarded $250,000 and 54…

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:09 +0000

The third and final day of the largest Pwn2Own shapes up with four entries and the awarding of Master of Pwn. It’s a tight race with multiple teams still in the running. Here’s the schedule for Day Three: 9:00am – 360 Security (@mj011sec) targeting Microsoft Edge with a SYSTEM-level escalation and a virtual machine escape…

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:10:43 +0000

The first day of Pwn2Own 2017 has come to a close, and so far, we’ve awarded $233,000 USD and 45 points for Master of Pwn. Today saw five successful attempts, one partial success, two failures, and two entries withdrawn. Our day started with the 360 Security team successfully using a jpeg2000 heap overflow, a Windows…

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:03:58 +0000

With the unprecedented number of contestants and entries, the Zero Day Initiative is dividing today’s schedule into two tracks. The first track will focus on attempts against Microsoft and Adobe products. Track Two focuses on products from Apple and Mozilla. This allows ZDI to get through twice the number of contestants in a single day…