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"I can't talk about the details of the vulnerability, but it was a Mac, fully patched, with Safari, fully patched," said Miller Wednesday not long after he had won the prize. "It probably took 5 or 10 seconds." He confirmed that he had researched and written the exploit before he arrived at the challenge.
According to Terri Forslof, the manager of security response at TippingPoint, another researcher later broke into a Sony laptop that was running Windows 7 by exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8. "Safari and IE both went down," she said in an e-mail.
he PWN2OWN rules stated that the researcher could provide a URL that hosted his or her exploit, replicating the common hacker tactic of enticing users to malicious sites where they are infected with malware.
"I gave them the link, they clicked on it, and that was it," said Miller. "I did a few things to show that I had full control of the Mac."
Originally posted by CherryDuck
mainly because everyone knows how to use them.
Originally posted by spitefulgod
I shall await the macheads usual uninformed taunts, but seriously any system can be compromised remotely no one is safe.
Originally posted by CherryDuck
Seriously if anyone is interested i'll give you my mac's IP address and you see if you can hack in i seriously doubt it
Cherry
Originally posted by Chrysalis
Also, it would be wise not to mix up operating system and web browser.
For the uninformed (including the OP) these are not the same thing.
Plus there's the human factor. If I can get someone to load up backorifice...
Originally posted by Chrysalis
I fail to see where the conspiracy in all this is.
Unless it's the all-mighty conspiracy of idiots at work.
I am on PC, I use XP, Vista, Ubuntu and Mandriva. Used to be like this before, criticising without really knowing. But out of curiosity i tried a Mac OS X not too long ago.
And using Ubuntu isn't a "cool" factor as the previous poster seems to imply.
If he actually cared to check for himself, opened a terminal and typed in a few commands (assuming he knows how to) he'd have realised macs arent that different from his cool ubuntu taylored for challenged individuals.
Mac OS X is fully POSIX compliant, go check your local wiki for POSIX and you might learn a few things about Macs that like me, before I actually decided to open my eyes, had no clue about...
[edit on 19-3-2009 by Chrysalis]
[edit on 19-3-2009 by Chrysalis]