MacBook pwned in two minutes (and fly me!)
Date : 2008 03 28 Category : Tech & Development
Computerworld Blogs - LinuxIt's IT Blogwatch: in which a MacBook Air gets hacked in a hacking competition (for hackers). Not to mention how to make dangerous-looking paper airplanes...
Robert McMillan McReports:
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 ...