I saw this today and loved it:
Apple Is Loser in Three-Way Hacking Contest 
"An Apple Mac was the first victim in a hacker shoot-out to determine which operating system is the most secure. A former US National Security Agency employee has trousered USD 10000 for breaking into a MacBook Air at CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. The MacBook was lined up against Linux and Vista PCs - which have so far remained uncracked. 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 yesterday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organisers using the computers to do things like visit websites or open email messages. The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday. Miller didn't need much time. He quickly directed the contest's organisers to visit a website that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on. He was the first contestant to attempt an attack on any of the systems." There is more bad news for Apple:
"If you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple." Update: The
contest is over. Vista got hacked using Adobe's Flash, Ubuntu was left standing.
3 comments:
Your hatred of Apple is becoming an unhealthy obsession.
don't shoot the messenger.
No shots fired. Just making an observation.
You'll never hear me, or anyone that I've run across for that matter, say OSX invulnerable. The internet/computing world can be a dangerous place for any system. Any rational person, Apple lover or not, would agree with that.
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