MacBook Hacked In Contest Via Zero-Day Hole in Safari

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:22PM from the and-the-winner-is dept.

EMB Numbers writes "Shane Macaulay just won a MacBook as a prize for successfully hacking OS X at CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, BC. The hack was based on a Safari vulnerability found by Dai Zovi and written in about 9 hours. CanSecWest organizers actually had to relax the contest rules to make the hack possible, because initially nobody at the event could breach the computers under the original restrictions. 'Dai Zovi plans to apply for a $10,000 bug bounty TippingPoint announced on Thursday if a previously unknown Apple bug was used. "Shane can have the laptop, I want the money," Dai Zovi said in a telephone interview from New York. TippingPoint runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program.'"

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Re:Read a better article than the one linked. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-20 21:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The MacBook was actually only hacked because they lessened the rules and actually had someone open Safari and use a malicious website.
Good point! It's well known that Mac users never open Safari nor do they ever use web sites.