Earlier this month Google introduced its new smartphones, which are called Pixel and Pixel XL. The gadgets were quite warmly received by the public, but until today nobody questioned the safety of these devices. No one except the hackers from China who managed to hack Google smartphone for an incredible 60 seconds in front of the surprised spectators. It happened at the festival PwnFest, held in the South Korean capital — Seoul.
Sounds pretty weird: just a minute to break something professionals the world’s largest IT corporations worked for many months, and possibly years. PwnFest to the festival from all over the world, information security experts and hackers. Here they share their experience and also demonstrate to your colleagues your skills on the example of the hacking of various applications and gadgets. The hacker team from China called Qihoo 360 has chosen to demonstrate this new Google smartphone.
Chinese hackers after hacking the device managed to get access to absolutely all information stored on it, including contacts, photos, messages and so on. For their achievements the team of hackers have received from the organizers of the festival prize in the amount of $ 120,000. In the context of the same festival was also hacked a new version of the Safari browser. This hacker took only 20 seconds, and the prize for hacking amounted to $ 80,000. The infamous Adobe Flash and all hacked in just 4 seconds, and earned in those 4 seconds, the same $ 120,000 that hackers from China.
New smartphone Pixel Google hacked in just 60 seconds
Sergey Grey