Pwn2Own is a competition held in the USA for the best hackers in the world, they compete to hack the best mobile terminals, computers and operating systems in the world to win various amounts of money offered by companies. These days Pwn2Own took place in the USA, and the hackers present at the American contest have already managed to exploit the terminals iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy S5, Nexus 5, Amazon Fire Phone and Nokia Lumia 1520. without much effort. Although in the case of the iPhone there is already a solution of 8 iOS jailbreak, hackers used other vulnerabilities to compromise Safari and gain administrator access.
In the case of Samsung Galaxy S5 and Nokia Lumia 1520 attacks they did not have complete success, they only manage to give hackers the ability to gain partial access to the operating system without having administrator access to the terminal. Companies like Google and Microsoft offer tens of thousands of dollars to hackers who are able to exploit their operating systems and disclose the vulnerabilities used in the process, so a contest like this can be extremely lucrative for those who can.
