Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080327...infoworld/96676

It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.

He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at 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.

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, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on. He was the first contestant to attempt an attack on any of the systems.

Miller was quickly given a nondisclosure agreement to sign, and he's not allowed to discuss particulars of his bug until the contest's sponsor, TippingPoint, can notify the vendor.
Contest rules state that Miller could only take advantage of software that was preinstalled on the Mac, so the flaw he exploited must have been accessible by, or possibly inside, Apple's Safari browser.

More proof that macs don't have better security than windows, just less hackers target macs...

+1

Right and Vista and UAC is bulletproof too.

Evidence that Macs have security flaws, not that they don't have better security. However, I would have to note that OSX has had a lot of security flaws recently - its claim to be more secure than Windows is certainly being erroded. Certainly market share is a factor.

agreed. and yes I use macs. granted unix IS a different beast than windows.
i've gotten just about everyone in my extended family to switch to macs just because they don't have to deal with the security-maintenance [scanning for viruses, malware, spyware, adware, etc.] on a regular basis (which none of them did when they had windows, and unfortunately I'm the family g33k). This made my life a lot easier not having to constantly fix their machines. Don't get me wrong, I think windows is excellent (and still use it daily) as long as you keep up with the security-maintenance.

This post has been edited by EXO242: Mar 28 2008, 00:57

no one in this thread has said anything close to that.

No but vista is much more secure than OSX

statistical results prove it


shhhhhhhhh

and that has anything to do with the brand new mac air being hacked...... how?

You don't even need stats, OSX being based on BSD that's already loads more secure than any Windows version out there. That's not what the article's about anyway.

Blasphemy! *lol*

That's insane.. props to him Hopefully, in a rather few months, I'll be starting to really hack...

*keeps dreaming*

Not said by the people who know,imagine all this vulnerabilities in Mac OSX with this tiny market share,then imagine if Mac OSX has 93% of market share (DANG!),now imagine that windows (Vista and XP) has lesser vulnerabilites with 750 million computers than OSX with 50 million pc at the most,and im being optimistic.


Can you see the breach?

Hope so,otherwise i'm so sorry

Physical access = hackable, no matter what the system.

not true.

Name an OS? I can tell you how to pull data. Remember, even encrypted drives can be thwarted by reading the keys form memory.