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Researchers who took part this week in the Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own Miami hacking competition have earned a total of $280,000 for exploits targeting industrial control systems and associated protocols. The teams and individuals who signed up for the hacking contest were Incite Team, Flashback Team, Claroty Research, Ben McBride, Fabius Artrel, Michael Stepankin, Lucas Georges, and a nameless team comprising Tobias Scharnowski, Niklas Breitfeld, and Ali Abbasi from the Horst Goertz Institute for IT-Security in Germany.
The very first Pwn2Own hacking competition that exclusively focuses on the industrial control systems has kicked off in Miami. On Day One, overall, there were six successful hacking attempts and two partially successful attempts against eight hacking targets, according to ZDI. On Day Two, there were three successful hacks and two partials against four total targets.
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative on Thursday announced the targets and prizes for the 2020 Pwn2Own competition, which is set to take place on March 18-20 in Vancouver at the CanSecWest conference. Pwn2Own 2019 introduced the automotive category and participants were invited to hack a Tesla Model 3.
The latest edition of the bi-annual hacking contest saw creative exploits in new device categories.
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 has come to an end and on the second day of the hacking contest bug bounty hunters have earned a total of $120,000 for demonstrating exploits against Samsung Galaxy S10 and...
White hat hackers have earned a total of $195,000 for demonstrating vulnerabilities in TVs, routers and smartphones on the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 contest taking place these days...
2020 Competition Will Focus on Hacking Critical Infrastructure SystemsThe 2020 Pwn2Own contest will focus on hacking industrial control systems and protocols. White Hat hackers will compete for...
Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, announced a new vulnerability research competition, Pwn2Own Miami, run by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). The first of its kind...
White-hat hackers will now have the chance to win $20,000 for sniffing out remote code-execution flaws in industrial control systems.
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) on Wednesday announced the prizes, rules and targets for Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019, which is set to take place on November 6-7 alongside the PacSec conference in...