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Recently hackers got their heads together at a friendly hacking competition that was aimed at highlighting vulnerabilities in OS and software beat up the Safari browser good, but weren’t successful with the smartphones. The Safari barely made it through the first 10 seconds on the MacBook. But when the time came for hacking smartphones, each held its own. All hack attempts from the BlackBerry to the iPhone, to any other ‘smart’ device fell short. And don’t think there wasn’t incentive; every successful hack of a smartphone would get the hacker a nice $10,000. Pretty nice. Only the closes that ay one got to actually hacking a smartphone was a BlackBerry Bold exploit that had reportedly worked in the past on a Storm. There was also an exploit that worked on a Safari on Mac that reportedly could also work on the iPhone, but the iPhone hack was not attempted; the rules of the contest stated that each exploit could be used only once. So who got the 10 grand? No body. But don’t lose hope yet, CanSecWest and ZDI have already stated that smartphones will be included once again in next year’s competition. So you have a solid year to polish your skills and give smartphone manufacturers something to lose sleep over.

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