http://www.techweb.com/security/229300728/safari-ie-defeated-chrome-firefox-survive.html
Safari, IE Defeated, Chrome, Firefox Survive.
Shortly before the Pwn2Own hacking contest began on Tuesday, Apple released iOS 4.3 and Safari 5.0.4, patching 59 security vulnerabilities in its mobile operating system and 62 vulnerabilities in the desktop version of its browser.
The fixes affected some of the exploits security researchers had prepared for their attempt to win the hacking prize -- $15,000 for compromising the latest desktop versions of Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, or Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or $20,000 for compromising Google's Chrome.
But Apple's timely release wasn't enough. After weeks of searching for flaws with fuzzing software, security researchers from VUPEN, a penetration testing company based in France, defeated Safari 5.0.4 decisively.
"We pwned Apple Safari on Mac OS X (x64) at Pwn2Own in 5 seconds,"
