Despite huge leaps in secure code, nothing is immune when hackers are motivated.
The first day of this year's Pwn2Own 2014and the companion contest that ran concurrently stuck with much the same theme, with successful hacks of the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers and Adobe's Flash and Reader applications.
But as long as there's a strong enough incentive—say, in the form of financial gain or the ability to acquire valuable national security or industry intelligence—exploits like the ones delivered at Pwn2Own won't just be possible. They'll be inevitable.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Pwn20wn