The PwnFest hacking competition, held in Seoul yesterday saw an interesting demonstration by a white-hat hacker group, called Qihoo 360. The hack successfully targeted Google's shiny new Pixel handset, won the group a $120,000 cash prize and opened-up a lot of patching work for Google. Both the regular and XL versions of the smartphone appear to be susceptible to the attack that utilizes what is know as a zero-day vulnerability. What that essentially means is a hole in the device's security, that was present on the initial software the units shipped with. And to our knowledge, no...
from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://ift.tt/2fZEzAD
via IFTTT
Post a Comment
One way to contribute to the development of this website is by always dropping your comment whenever you read a post.
EmoticonDon't leave without dropping yours
Click to see the code!
To insert emoticon you must added at least one space before the code.