http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/iphone-galaxy-s5-nexus-5-and-fire-phone-fall-like-dominoes-at-pwn2own/
By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Nov 12 2014
An iPhone 5S, Samsung Galaxy S5, LG Nexus 5, and Amazon Fire Phone were
all hijacked by whitehats on the first day of an annual hacking contest
that pays hefty cash prizes for exploits bypassing security sandbox
perimeters.
Day one of the Mobile Pwn2Own competition at the PacSec conference in
Tokyo repeated a theme struck over and over at previous Pwn2Own events. If
a device runs software, it can be hacked—regardless of claims made by
marketers or fans. Organized by the Hewlett-Packard-owned Zero Day
Initiative and sponsored this year by Google and Blackberry, Mobile
Pwn2Own awards as much as $150,000 for the most advanced hacks, with a
total prize pool of $425,000. In exchange, contestants agree to turn over
technical details to the organizer and keep them confidential until the
underlying vulnerabilities have been patched.
During the first day, according to this HP blog post, the following hacks
took place:
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