Elsie
28 Mar 08, 12:51 PM
This made me laugh ...
Mac is the first to fall in Pwn2Own hack contest (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/mac_hack/)
The "Pwn2Own" competition is for hackers to see who can crack an Operating System the quickest and run their own code. The combatants were a MacBook Air (running a fully patched Leopard) agsinst Vista and Linux - the Mac was hacked < 2 minutes :d:
My guess is the hacker had known about the security hole / vunerabilty for a long time but waited until the competition to win the money. Fair play to him though!
Mac is the first to fall in Pwn2Own hack contest (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/mac_hack/)
The "Pwn2Own" competition is for hackers to see who can crack an Operating System the quickest and run their own code. The combatants were a MacBook Air (running a fully patched Leopard) agsinst Vista and Linux - the Mac was hacked < 2 minutes :d:
My guess is the hacker had known about the security hole / vunerabilty for a long time but waited until the competition to win the money. Fair play to him though!