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The hackers of Pangu in 20 seconds hacked Safari in macOS, Sierra and earned $80 000

The Chinese Pangu team, famous for the development of the iOS, just 20 seconds for the first time broke into the Safari browser in the operating system macOS Sierra.

Another page written in the history of computer security, not too pleasant for desktop operating systems. First for Apple, as the new desktop operating system, released this fall, was hacked in less than half a minute.

During the competition PwnFest 2016 team from China was able to quickly deal with the protection of the Safari, for which he received $80 000. The developers used a zero day exploit with higher privileges. Apple already gave information about this security breach, so a patch is expected soon.

At the same event, another Chinese team of hackers in just 60 seconds first hacked in October, the Google Pixel. After you install the code app store Google Play and the Chrome began to display the message “Pwned by 360 Alpha Team”.

As a reward, the hackers received a cash prize of $120 000. Neither one skilled in the competition failed to crack iPhone iOS 7 on 10 and get a reward of $180 000.

It should be noted that this is not the only contest victory, won the Chinese IT specialists. They also hacked the Edge browser, a 64-bit version of Windows 10 update 1 Red Stone. For which he received the Microsoft prize of $120 thousand.

The overall winning prize Fund Chinese information security specialists was $520 000.

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