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Google offers 'up to $1 million' to hack Chrome

We're just coming up to the annual Pwn2Own competition at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, where hackers gather to show their prowess at "owning... Read more

28 February, 2012

Safari, IE browsers hacked in Pwn2Own contest

...the first to be compromised in the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference, according to ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet.com. French security... Read more

10 March, 2011

Microsoft fixes 64 flaws in major Patch Tuesday update

...News. The bulletin also addresses problems uncovered in the Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest in March. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Microsoft... Read more

13 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Orange Spain reveals phone numbers: researcher

...student at the Berlin Institute of Technology, gave a presentation at the CanSecWest security conference which said that Orange UK uses mobile phone numbers in... Read more

31 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Researchers demo keystroke-sniffing via laser

Presenters at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver detailed on Thursday how they can sniff data... Read more

20 March, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Safari hole exploited in seconds at hack contest

...version of the Mac OS as part of a contest at the CanSecWest security conference called 'Pwn2Own', which is hacker slang for gaining control of... Read more

19 March, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Vista, Leopard and Linux to compete in hack contest

...next month. The contest is being run by the organisers of the CanSecWest security conference as a repeat of 2007's PWN to Own context... Read more

7 February, 2008 by Tom Espiner

MacBook hacked in security contest

...prize in the "PWN to Own" hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The successful attack on the second and final day... Read more

23 April, 2007 by Joris Evers

iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox hacked in contest

...on Windows 7 as part of the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show. Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, won... Read more

25 March, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Apple's Leopard lasts '30 seconds' in hack contest

...operating systems Ubuntu and Windows Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to Own competition. Security firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) — the same... Read more

28 March, 2008 by Liam Tung

Apple releases QuickTime security update

...064) and a new MacBook in the "PWN to OWN" contest at CanSecWest 2007. This security update complements an earlier bug patch for QuickTime 7... Read more

30 May, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Mac security concerns grow

Following Apple's latest security update, experts warn that there is no room for complacency over the malware risk to Macs Read more

1 May, 2007 by Brett Winterford

Cybercrooks get better at concealing code

...a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, in a presentation at the CanSecWest security confab. "Their obfuscation tools are primitive but effective," Nazario said. "They... Read more

19 April, 2007 by Joris Evers

CanSecWest Security Conference: $10K to Hack Your SmartPhone

CanSecWest Security Conference: $10K to Hack Your SmartPhone Author: Eric Everson Admittedly I... Read more

26 March, 2009

Orange leaks mobile numbers, says researcher

...web surfing sessions, has indicated that the problem is widespread. At the CanSecWest security conference last month, Collin Mulliner, a PhD student at Technical University... Read more

20 April, 2010 by Vivian Yeo

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

6 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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