Thursday, November 14, 2013

Pwn2Own 2013: Galaxy S 4 and iOS broken! - CHIP

Chinese team Keen Team presented two security flaws in Apple’s operating system – iOS 6.1.4 and iOS 7.0.3. At the first hackers, luring the user to a substituted website, they were able to capture the base cookies stored by Safari web browser. In this way, the data acquired to log on to the portal Facebook and logged in from another computer, pretending to be a member iPhone 5 A newer version of iOS and perished while the model permits – when a user visits a prepared site, hackers can steal his phone such as the picture. Both iPhones 5, where burglaries were made after the jailbreak. Not selected a group of hackers, however, to sandboksa, so total received “only” $ 27,000 prize.Later

Japanese team Team MBSD plunged Samsung Galaxy S 4, which are installed by default, copyright applications, found a number of security vulnerabilities. What must be emphasized is not the Android system is made responsible for the burglary. Hackers, after luring the user to a website, system files may install malicious software, ignoring phone holder. In this way, captured data from multiple installed applications, including, inter alia, SMS, address book and bookmarks. For his discovery, the team received a $ 40,000 prize.

Interested companies were informed of security vulnerabilities.

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