How Xi Jinping leveled-up China’s hacking teams
China’s investments in cybersecurity education set the stage for a new, more prolific era of digital espionage.
China’s investments in cybersecurity education set the stage for a new, more prolific era of digital espionage.
The good thing about it was that it was big. The bad thing about it? That it was big.
One team used the calculator app in a macOS as an entrypoint into taking over an entire machine.
This is a “radical concept” for ICS vendors, one organizer said.
The browser vulnerabilities were first made public a 20-year-old security researcher who says he first notified Microsoft about the issues 10 months ago.
Team “Flouroacetate” — aka Amat Cama and Richard Zhu — used the Tesla hack to cap off a dominant run in the competition.
The second day of Pwn2Own 2019 featured more successful attacks from the “Flouroacetate” team of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu.
Thursday’s slate of demonstrations includes more attacks against web browsers — this time, it’s Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
The hacker competition added an automotive category for its upcoming event in Vancouver, with the full blessing of the car company. One winning researcher will be able to claim the car itself.
The competition exposed bugs in mobile devices made by Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi. Hackers went home with thousands of dollars and some sweet jackets.