Pwn2Own, a competition between hackers to find exploits in various operating systems and platforms has claimed some victims but the iPhone has survived every round unscathed.

Hackers were unable to crack in to the iPhone alongside a handful of other devices but ironically, the Mac was hacked within minutes thanks to an exploit within Safari. Applying the attack to the iPhone proved to be more difficult due to the device’s limited resources. Terri Forslof of 3Com Inc.‘s security response team had this to say about mobile exploits:

“With the mobile devices so limited on memory and processing power, a lot of [researchers’] main exploit techniques are not able to work,”

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