Technology $10,000 Hack-A-Mac

[Rad]

It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.

Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously undisclosed "0day" attack.

Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.

The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday, however, the word on the show floor is that the Linux and Vista systems will meet with some serious challenges on Friday.

Miller was quickly given a nondisclosure agreement to sign and he's not allowed to discuss particulars of his bug until the contest's sponsor, TippingPoint, can notify the vendor.

"It's one thing to find a vulnerability, it's another thing to make working exploit code," said Terri Forslof, TippingPoint's Manager of Security Response.

Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner

A security researcher who hacked a MacBook Air at the "PWN to OWN" hacker challenge at CanSecWest chose to attack Apple's operating system because "it was the easiest one" to go after.

www.computerworld.com

 

[Prometheus]

Never liked Macs, never will.
Score!

 

[Jackal]

now what about the $1 hack a PC contest

 

[Varine]

now what about the $1 hack a PC contest

How about we make Apple stop lying in their commercials?

 

[Jackal]

How about we make Apple stop lying in their commercials?

They lied in their commercials? Since when?

 

[phyrex1an]

now what about the $1 hack a PC contest

A Windows PC was in the contests, the Vista SP 1 was hacked in stage 3 (custom installed software) with the help of a security hole in Adobe Flash.

The Ubuntu computer was un-beaten during the contest.

 

[sqrage]

They lied in their commercials? Since when?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/31/apple_hit_with_another_millions_of_colors_lawsuit.html

for one.

 

[Jackal]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/31/apple_hit_with_another_millions_of_colors_lawsuit.html

for one.

deceiving not lying

 

[Varine]

They lied in their commercials? Since when?

As I recall I heard them say they had no viruses once....

Here's a list, although based off the website's title I don't know how trusting of it you'll be:

http://www.mac-sucks.com/switch_why.php

PS: May I ask why -rep was necessary just because you're wrong and Apple lies?