French security firm Vupen Security exploits IE at Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest security conference. IE is latest browser to be “owned” at the contest, a fixture at the annual CanSecwest security conference in Vancouver. The contest targets four browsers–Chrome, IE, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox, running on Windows 7 or Mac OS X Lion–and awards points based on the exploits used, with a working zero-day exploit earning 32 points. Google announced Thursday morning that it had patched the bug, which it said had a universal cross-site scripting error and “bad history””]
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