Mar 25,2010
Pwn2Own hack topples Firefox on Windows
A German hacker known simply as "Nils" exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox to take complete control of a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
Filed Under: Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Firefox, Mozilla, Open source, Responsible disclosure, Vulnerability research, ZDNet Security, Zero-day attacks, Tags: security, zdnet
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