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This year’s
contest will pit hackers against browsers and smart phones with
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome among the
high-profile targets. It will also include attacks against fully
patched BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones
in their default configurations.
Here are Miller’s predictions:
* Safari: hacked by 4 different people. Easy
pickin’s as usual.
* Android: hacked by 1 person. Not too tough
but no one owns one.
* IE8, Firefox: Survive unscathed. The bugs to
exploit equation is too hard for $5k.
* iPhone, Symbian: Survive due to non-executable
heap.
* Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Chrome: I don’t know
enough to say anything intelligent. That said, they’re probably
hard/obscure and so survive.
Last year, Miller exploited a Safari flaw to hijack a fully patched
MacBook Pro machine. He is also known for launching successful
attacks against Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform.
ALSO SEE: 10 questions for MacBook
hacker Dino Dai Zovi
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