By Eduard Kovacs on March 16, 2017 Bug bounty hunters have managed to hack Microsoft Edge, Safari, Ubuntu and Adobe Reader on the first day of the Pwn2Own 2017 competition taking place these days alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The prize pool for this year’s event is $1 million and 11 teams have signed up to hack products in four categories. On the first day of the competition, participants earned a total of $233,000 for the exploits they disclosed.
A researcher from Chinese security firm Qihoo360 earned $50,000 for hacking Adobe Reader on Windows. The hacker leveraged remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities in Windows, and a.jpg2000 heap overflow in Reader to complete the task. Full Article
Pwn2Own 2017: Experts Hack Edge, Safari, Ubuntu
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