IE8 Security Myth: it takes only 5 minutes for hackers to crack

In the early morning of the 20th Beijing time, Microsoft officially released the latest version of Internet Explorer 8 browser. But just a few hours before the release of a browser that attracted the eyes of countless people, a german researcher successfully broke its security defense line at the PWN2OWN competition, won a $5000 prize and a Sony VAIO laptop. It is said that the "master" who hacked IE8 was a computer major student from Germany named Nils. Terri Forslof, president of TippingPoint Security Department of 3Com, said, in just a few minutes, Nils used an unknown vulnerability to break the IE 8 browser running on "a recently released Windows 7 Internal beta version.

Earlier, Microsoft released IE8 running on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, and other operating systems, but the official version running on Windows 7 has not yet been developed.

Forslof said, "for Microsoft, this is a very important bug. This indicates that IE8 still has a series of defects or vulnerabilities. Microsoft needs to continue to fix it. But for PWN2OWN, this is a very exciting moment. Microsoft can only stand there and watch it happen ." In addition, TippingPoint has provided technical details and code of IE8 to MSRC's Microsoft Security Research Center within five minutes to Mike Reavey, business president.

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