MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 27, 2008 @04:06PM from the potential-reality-tv-show dept.

Multiple readers have written to let us know that the MacBook Air was the first laptop to fall in the CanSecWest hacking contest. The successful hijacking took place only two minutes into the second day of the competition, after the rules had been relaxed to allow the visiting of websites and opening of emails. The TippingPoint blog reveals that the vulnerability was located within Safari, but they won't release specific details until Apple has had a chance to correct the problem. The winner, Charlie Miller, gets to keep the laptop and $10,000. We covered the contest last year, and the results were similar.

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Re:Identical articles by Immerial · 2008-03-27 16:58 · Score: 1, Redundant

So is it official that the Vista and Ubuntu machines have survived day 2??! Judging from the blog... it isn't:

Update 5:45 PST - The contest is officially over for today. Check back tomorrow to see how the Vista and Ubuntu laptops fare.

Do you have an inside scoop??