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Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer

By | March 10, 2011, 11:04am PST

Summary: Threatpost.com editor Dennis Fisher talks to Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the utility of memory protections

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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
FAULKNE 13th Oct
Good day to confirm this comment I would appreciate T h e b e s t o f Z D N e t d e l i v e r e d your website very nice to everyone Yes, Oracle is the only one with shared-disk architecture, but that is there advantage. It means you can add or remove nodes and the database lives on. In a shared nothing architecture, if you lose a node, you lose the system. I'm sure Oracle appreciates EMC highlighting their advantage.I also desire to signal in your RSS feeds. Thank you as soon as once again and maintain up the great operate Awesome post! Thank you very much || thanks for nice content this is really benefit to me.
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Microsoft needs to issue formal apology.
james347 Updated - 10th Mar 2011
Owning IE anything is no challenge at all. And why is that? Just look at Microsoft's history with Security. They need to formally apologize to the entire Computer World, admit they do not know what they are doing and beg for help from anyone with decent coding skills.
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
Droid101 10th Mar 2011
@james347
Uh, Mac os and Safari got pwned first. So why not go comment in that post?
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So do you
Will Farrell 10th Mar 2011
@james347
The idiotic, biased posts you force us to endure should require you to appologize to us.
A co-worker saw your post and asked me when they stated letting 10 year olds on this site.
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
CowLauncher 10th Mar 2011
@Will Farrell & Droid101 karma is a bltch boys.
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CowManureLauncher, you can do better then that
Will Farrell 10th Mar 2011
@CowLauncher
Come on, if you going to dish it out your better be able to take it.
But maybe I'm asking to much, you ABM's don't like to be slapped down in the way you are.

Then quit being trolls, you tools.
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
tonymcs@... 10th Mar 2011
@james347

Just tell me there aren't another 346 James like you. Please go and use Safari or the garage browser or the one from the advertising company, I'll stick with the people who make the world OS.

Any bets on James's age - I'm going for 12 wink
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
shellcodes_coder 10th Mar 2011
Microsoft is def. taking security seriously but one thing's for sure, it will take them ages to release security patches for those exploited security holes. They need to fix Windows too
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IE8 the most secure browser so far
DanglingPointer 14th Mar 2011
Even Stephen Fewer admitted that too if you listen to him what he is saying. As compared to the number of hackers participating in exploiting IE loopholes, believe me if 10% of that lobby even think of hacking chome it would get vaporized bcoz it?s a crippled webbrowser which exploits your privacy all the time. I am not an IE fanboy either but I tend to be moderate and compare the products impartially. In terms of security IE9 is still the best. In terms of agility chrome is the best. If you are risking your privacy worth of some milliseconds delay of loading the browser window when OS starts, then you should take a second thought! jmho.
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
MEJIAHA 30th Sep
Fantastic news about the new release.I positively enjoying each little bit of it and I have you b o o k m a r k e d to check out new stuff you weblog post.Im not sure i come to an agreement with you on every level, howevor it absolutely was a good posting, many thanks for taking the time to put up your ideas
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RE: Video: IE8 Pwn2Own winner Stephen Fewer
FAULKNE 13th Oct
Good day to confirm this comment I would appreciate T h e b e s t o f Z D N e t d e l i v e r e d your website very nice to everyone Yes, Oracle is the only one with shared-disk architecture, but that is there advantage. It means you can add or remove nodes and the database lives on. In a shared nothing architecture, if you lose a node, you lose the system. I'm sure Oracle appreciates EMC highlighting their advantage.I also desire to signal in your RSS feeds. Thank you as soon as once again and maintain up the great operate Awesome post! Thank you very much || thanks for nice content this is really benefit to me.

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