Owners of Apple products have a tendency to be complacent about security, but the results of this year's Pwn2Own contest suggest a little more wariness may be in order. "It's the fourth year they've run the contest, and every year someone's broken into Safari," noted Charlie Miller, the security analyst who won $10,000 and a MacBook Pro for hacking the browser in this year's event.
Three security experts tore into three Web browsers on Wednesday, the first day of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, exposing flaws on a MacBook, iPhone and Windows PC, and winning cash and hardware in the process.

Network security provider TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative organized its contest to enable Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and other companies to plug holes in their popular products and protect the data of their customers.

"As a whole, most people seem to understand basic security, but there are still some gaping holes in today's most popular hardware and software computing platforms," Aaron Portnoy, security research team lead for TippingPoint, told TechNewsWorld. "The goal of this contest is to demonstrate how vulnerable these devices really are."

The results of the contest will be reported to the manufacturers so they can create the appropriate patches, according to Portnoy.

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