TGDaily’s Christian Zibreg reports that Charlie Miller claims Apple’s new Safari 4 Beta on the Mac will be the first browser to fail at this year’s “Pwn2Own” contest. Miller said that Safari is “the easiest browser” to hack. According to TGDaily, “Miller has argued that Safari’s security-related weaknesses stem from a complex code that handles many features and multimedia file types, as well as a lack of workable defenses on the part of OS X.” TGDaily said that Miller hinted that other browsers are more secure than Safari, arguing that $5,000 isn’t motivation enough to try to crack IE8, Firefox, or Chrome.
As Zibreg reports, “if Apple’s Safari surrenders again within minutes, it will be a big blow for Apple who likes pitching its software and the operating system as rock solid.”
Considering that Miller is the same guy who broke into a MacBook Air in under two minutes during a high-profile hacking contest in Vancouver, the odds are that he can do it again.