u_c_taker Wrote:wow a mac got hacked faster than vista
oh well i guess ms have improved security

Well, to be fair, he had the code already on his site, which he went straight to via safari.  The rules states you could only use out of the box programs from the start... and well...

Quote:Boston (dbTechno) - Security researchers have managed to team together to win $10,000. They won the prize after they hacked into the MacBook Air in just two minutes.

It is believed that they hacked the MacBook Air using a vulnerability found in the Safari Web browser.

The team is known as the Independent Security Evaluators, and is made up of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel.

They took part in the Pwn to Own contest put on by TippingPoint.

To win the contest, they hacked into, and gained full control of the MacBook Air in mere seconds.

The event was put on in Vancouver, Canada to check how the MacBook Air performed against other PCs running Windows Vista, as well as Ubuntu.

The first machine was the VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.0. There was also the MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2 and a Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1.

The hackers managed to have a code already set up ona Web site. They were then able to hack into the MacBook Air by tricking the judges to visit the site.

This is believed to be a newly discovered and major vulnerability in the Safari Web browser. The vulnerability has been reported to Apple who is now working on the problem.

http://www.dbtechno.com/computers/2008/0...0-seconds/