12.03.2011 01:05 Uhr, Quelle: MacNN

Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit

Hacker Charlie Miller, who has repeatedly won the CanSecWest "Pwn2Own" security competition in Vancouver, seems to enjoy owning Apple products -- but mainly by winning them after demonstrating a security vulnerability. Miller, who has previously compromised an (original) MacBook Air and has since focused mostly on vulnerabilities in Webkit and Safari, used that technique again this year to compromise an iPhone 4, thus winning it. The exploit Miller used has been blocked in the release of iOS 4.3, but the vulnerability in Webkit still exists, he told ZDNet.

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