Friday, March 28th 2008
Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac Gets Hacked First in Contest
All hypes and myths about Apple being the most secure OS, or at least being the last OS to be hacked may have been busted by Charlie Miller on Thursday when he managed to hack an Apple MacBoock Air for 2 minutes flat during the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. 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. Miller, best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple's iPhone last year, took advantage of the new privileges given by the jury and within 2 minutes, he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer. He was the first contestant to attempt an attack on any of the systems, and that was enough for him to win quick $10,000 and perhaps show how secure the MacBook Air was. Continue reading the full story with more details here.
Source:
security.itworld.com
31 Comments on Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac Gets Hacked First in Contest
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apple is like 2% of the market.
but now see, if the government started using apples. im sure there would be alot more viruses and people trying to hack them.
haha i couldn't even change the wallpaper on an apple :ohwell: much less do a hack like that
and where did this fanboy stuff come from? no one was even talking bad about apple?
if this were on windows it prob would have been done in the same amount of time if not less
No one hacked those either on the first day.
:roll:
:confused:
okey read it at the blog:
Ubuntu and Vista (wich one is less important i think)
Trying to hack windows is like trying to hold up a convenience store in Iraq ...
Some linux distros are much better, of course, but you literally have to build your connectivity, firewall and well, basically the OS.
shit i wish!
What version MAC is that??? :laugh::laugh:
Yeah, what you said too.