The Pwn2Own contest is back this year and is looking the new winner. The competition starts at 24th of March 2010. in Vancouver. The winner is the person that will successfully hack an application or a platform and the prize will be $100,000 USD and keep the target that exploit.
In the first day the attackers will try to exploit one of the below web-browsers:
Second day will be:
Third and last day:
Also except of web-browsers this year the attackers have the chance to exploit one of the four mobile-devices:
Although last year noone have managed to exploit a mobile device, this year the expectations are high that the iPhone will go down. For every successful exploit the winner will keep the device and take $15,000.
Aaron Portnoy,security researcher at TippingPoint and Pwn2Own said: “”With all the recent research on mobile phone security being presented worldwide, these devices are quickly becoming a ripe target,First to fall: the iPhone”.
Miller, the winner of 2008 and 2009 contest which he managed to exploit Safari web browser, this year will stick on Safari to win again the contest. However, Miller said “in real life the iPhone is harder because you can’t just execute a shell. You have to write your return-oriented payload to do all your dirty work, which can be a pain.” We will expect from Miller this year to break the Iphone through Mobile Safari.
Happy exploiting 
References:
http://arstechnica.com/security/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5709&tag=content;col1
