Hackers beat Firefox and Safari to earn $105K at Pwn2Own


CSAW is an international student cybersecurity event based at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Markus Gaasedelen, Nick Burnett and Patrick Biernat of Ret2 Systems, Inc. ... are all ex-presidents of RPIsec, [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's] student-run CTF team that recently won CSAW, the premiere collegiate CTF contest. ... Samuel Groß (saelo) and Niklas Baumstark (_niklasb) share a similar path from a European start. The German students, who successfully targeted Safari and Oracle VirtualBox on Monday, compete in CTF contests for Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and recently won the European CSAW.

 

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