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MacBook Hacked In Contest Via Zero-Day Hole in Safari

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. OT: Discussion2 down? by pintpusher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm using discussion2 and my floating bar and the expand comment links aren't working. anyone else see this?

    Also getting 503's for my personal page. huh.

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  2. Re:OT: Same here. by pintpusher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    right. time for bed then. 'night all

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  3. Re:switcher by Tickletaint · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try reading comprehension sometime. "Stupid fuck" indeed.

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