jetdawgg
03-31-08, 12:52 PM
One of the things that Apple has always prided itself over and promoted in no uncertain terms, has been the so-called 'robust security' offered by its OSX operating system. However this supposition of Apple's took a huge beating on Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in just two minutes using a previously unknown security vulnerability in Apple’s own safari browser.
http://www.tech2.com/media/images/2008/Mar/img_56061_apple-macbook-air_450x360.jpg (http://www.tech2.com/media/images/2008/Mar/img_56061_apple-macbook-air.jpg)
The people who did the 'hack' were ISE security researchers - Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel – who were participating in the "PWN to OWN" competition at the CanSecWest security conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In this competition there were 3 laptops, with different OS’s offered for being hacked into. These included an Apple Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 and a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. Anyone who could successfully hack or exploit these machines would win a $10,000 price from famous security company Tipping Point.
The first to go was of course the Macbook, followed by Windows Vista (http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up). Ubuntu stood strong despite repeated attempts.
http://www.tech2.com/india/news/software/macbook-air-hacked-in-under-2-minutes/32761/0?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email
Let's Waterboard the hackers:D
http://www.tech2.com/media/images/2008/Mar/img_56061_apple-macbook-air_450x360.jpg (http://www.tech2.com/media/images/2008/Mar/img_56061_apple-macbook-air.jpg)
The people who did the 'hack' were ISE security researchers - Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel – who were participating in the "PWN to OWN" competition at the CanSecWest security conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In this competition there were 3 laptops, with different OS’s offered for being hacked into. These included an Apple Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 and a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. Anyone who could successfully hack or exploit these machines would win a $10,000 price from famous security company Tipping Point.
The first to go was of course the Macbook, followed by Windows Vista (http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up). Ubuntu stood strong despite repeated attempts.
http://www.tech2.com/india/news/software/macbook-air-hacked-in-under-2-minutes/32761/0?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email
Let's Waterboard the hackers:D