Media Coverage

However, it is unlikely that the group's efforts to stir public pressure against Apple will be effective, noted Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president for cloud research at Trend Micro, in an online post.

Last week, the 10th annual Pwn2own hacking challenge was hosted by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), with multiple groups of researchers taking aim at web browsers, operating systems and virtualization technology.

One of the premier hacking contests is Pwn2Own, where security teams get together and see if they can break into the leading operating systems and web browsers.

At this year's installment of Pwn2Own, a hacking competition that's been taking place since 2007, the duo of Samuel Groß and Niklas Baumstark did exactly that.

The Pwn2Own contest runs every year during the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's organized and sponsored by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), an exploit acquisition program operated by Trend Micro after its acquisition of TippingPoint.