Research in Motion is Co-Sponsering this year’s Mobile Pwn2Own contest with AT&T, HP DVLabs, and TippingPoint. The event will be held in Amsterdam on September 19th and 20th at the EUSecWest conference. The concept is to show the security posture of the most common mobile technologies including attacks on mobile web browsers, Near Field Communication (NFC), Short Message Service (SMS), and the cellular baseband. Contestants will be able to choosen from a list of different devices, including the BlackBerry Bold 9930, Samsung Galaxy SIII, the Apple iPhone 4s and the Nokia Lumia 900. All devices will be using the most current OS to make sure the event is fair. A successful attack against these devices must require little or no user interaction and must compromise or exfiltrate useful data from the phone. Any attack that can incur cost upon the owner of the device (such as silently calling long-distance numbers, eavesdropping on conversations, and so forth) is within scope. To avoid interfering with licensed carrier networks, all RF attacks must be completed within the provided RF isolation enclosure. The vulnerabilities utilized in the attack must be an 0-day. Of course no competition is anything without a prize for the winner. If you compromise enough you will win a cash prize, the device itself and 20,000 ZDI points which qualifies them for silver status. (Benefits of ZDI Silver standing include a one-time $5,000 USD cash payment, 15% monetary bonus on all ZDI submissions over the next calendar year, 25% reward point bonus on all ZDI submissions over the next calendar year and paid travel and registration to attend the 2013 DEFCON Conference in Las Vegas

We heard about RIM coming out with a Photo Editing application on BlackBerry 10 and now we are getting to see glimpses of it bumper case for iphone 4S. By looking at the picture above and below, you can see that RIM is having some trouble getting the app correct with the two different form factors. Of course none of this is the final product so they are of course working to figure the issues out. It looks to be a great app! Check out the pictures down below. Thanks Samsung Cases N4BB!