A hacker annual competition will be held in the months ahead, and the Apple iPhone has been prepared and the four other smartphone in the contest with $ 10,000 prize to anyone who can 'dismantle' the mobile device. The contest will represent the candidate with a mobile phone running the Android operating system, Symbian and Windows Mobile, such as in the BlackBerry and iPhone.According to the sponsor's competition hacker, 3COM's TippingPoint unit, to get a $ 10,000 prize, hackers need to be able to exploit the iPhone smartphone, and start from the email, a test SMS, web browsing, and general user action when using the other device. Previously, all mobile devices that will be used kelemahannya and of course more 'diperketat', plus the 3COM.
Competition is further demonstration of the tooth hacker to exploit a web browser, like Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, and Google Chrome that runs on Sony Vaio with Windows 7 system, as well as Safari and Firefox browser that will be installed on the MacBook with the system Mac OS X. Eksploitas browser for this prize winners will be $ 5000 per bug that was created.
This competition is the third time from Pwn2Own contests, which will be held on 18 to 20 March 2009 in West CanSec security conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Rules of the contest is a candidate to become the winner must maintain the confidentiality of detail bug them until the vendor has been improve. One day before the competition, contestant will be asked mengeksplotasi devices in some applications. Second day and next, it will be expanded, and of course physical access to the smartphone and the iPhone is not provided by the vendor. (h_n)
http://www.beritanet.com/Business/Corporation/Kontes-Hacker-iPhone.html
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