![]() Within a couple of minutes, Fewer had defeated the browser, bypassing both DEP and ASLR on the Windows 7 laptop and getting his code to run on the machine. The second entrant was Stephen Fewer, a security consultant at in Cork City, Ireland, who went after IE 8 on Windows 7. The winner, Chaouki Bekrar of French firm VUPEN, took down the browser within a minute or so using a drive-by download exploit against Safari. ![]() T he first contestant in the annual hacking contest at CanSecWest here on Wednesday went after Safari on the Mac and was able to exploit an unpatched flaw in the browser and win the MacBook Pro as well as a $15,000 prize. None of the researchers decided to try their hand against Google Chrome, however, so that browser was the only one still standing after day one. VANCOUVER–On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest here, contestants were able to take down both Safari on Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7.
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