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Credit to Author: Brian Gorenc| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000
The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own just successfully completed as the Zero Day Initiative spent $833,000 acquiring 51 different 0-day bugs. The event was filled with drama as vendors released their security patches the day before the contest, causing a number of entries to pull out immediately. Over the next three days, five additional entries would…
Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 02:59:00 +0000
Our final day of Pwn2Own 2017 came to a close with some amazing research. The contest had never previously required a 3rd day of competition, but with our largest ever number of registrations, coinciding with our 10th anniversary, extending to include the extra entries proved more than worthwhile. Just today, we awarded $250,000 and 54…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:00:04 +0000
There was never any doubt what my topic would be for this week’s blog. March Madness, right? Normally I’d be talking about the NCAA Basketball tournament, but not this time. Our March Madness is called Pwn2Own. We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own in Vancouver this week with the biggest contest ever with 11 teams…
Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:07:09 +0000
The third and final day of the largest Pwn2Own shapes up with four entries and the awarding of Master of Pwn. It’s a tight race with multiple teams still in the running. Here’s the schedule for Day Three: 9:00am – 360 Security (@mj011sec) targeting Microsoft Edge with a SYSTEM-level escalation and a virtual machine escape…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:10:43 +0000
The first day of Pwn2Own 2017 has come to a close, and so far, we’ve awarded $233,000 USD and 45 points for Master of Pwn. Today saw five successful attempts, one partial success, two failures, and two entries withdrawn. Our day started with the 360 Security team successfully using a jpeg2000 heap overflow, a Windows…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:03:58 +0000
With the unprecedented number of contestants and entries, the Zero Day Initiative is dividing today’s schedule into two tracks. The first track will focus on attempts against Microsoft and Adobe products. Track Two focuses on products from Apple and Mozilla. This allows ZDI to get through twice the number of contestants in a single day…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:36:06 +0000
This blog will be updated throughout the competition so keep tracking for the latest updates! A global outbreak of bigger bugs. Badder bugs. And they’re threatening the world as we know it. Yes, it sounds like a poorly-written trailer for the next summer blockbuster alien invasion movie, but in truth, it’s a reality we’ll face…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:59:01 +0000
Welcome to Pwn2Own 2017 – the tenth anniversary of the competition and our largest Pwn2Own ever. This is also our largest contest ever with over $1,000,000 USD up for the taking – and continuing what we started last year, we’ll crown a “Master of Pwn” as the overall winner on Day Three. As we do every…
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