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Record W2091812764 · doi:10.1016/s1353-4858(10)70043-x

Pwn2Own wrap up and analysis

2010· article· en· W2091812764 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNetwork Security · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCONTESTComputer securityComputer scienceExploitFellEvent (particle physics)ExecutableThe InternetInternet privacyTipping point (physics)Point (geometry)SoftwareCompetition (biology)World Wide WebPolitical scienceEngineeringOperating systemLaw

Abstract

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Each year at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, security company Tipping Point sponsors a competition that pits security researchers against each other in a bid to hack some of the most popular software and hardware products. The 2010 competition yielded some interesting results. Firefox, running on Windows 7, was hacked and forced to run an executable program. Internet Explorer 8 also fell victim to an attack, and Apple's iPhone and MacBook Pro were compromised. Aaron Portnoy of Tipping Point was monitoring the contest to see how things unfolded, and found some lessons in this year's contest. The hacks tell us some useful things about the broader security landscape, and the threats facing today's software and hardware customers. In this article, he details some of the key things that we can take away from the proceedings. We have just wrapped up this year's Pwn2Own contest, an annual event held at CanSecWest, where security researchers compete to find bugs in common browsers and smartphones. This year's contest included several impressive exploits against targets including Internet Explorer 8, Safari, Firefox and the iPhone.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.858
Threshold uncertainty score0.438

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it