Macbook Hacked in Under 2 Minutes
One of the things that Apple has always prided itself over and promoted in no uncertain terms, has been the so-called ‚robust security‘ offered by its OSX operating system. However this supposition of Apple’s took a huge beating on Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in just two minutes using a previously unknown security vulnerability in Apple’s own safari browser.
The people who did the ‚hack‘ were ISE security researchers – Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel – who were participating in the „PWN to OWN“ competition at the CanSecWest security conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In this competition there were 3 laptops, with different OS’s offered for being hacked into. These included an Apple Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 and a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. Anyone who could successfully hack or exploit these machines would win a $10,000 price from famous security company Tipping Point.
The first to go was of course the Macbook, followed by Windows Vista.
Ubuntu stood strong despite repeated attempts.
Longneck
ach…
und wie bitteschön hän si das gmacht? vorgehe, beschriebig? das dunkt mi grad sehr unseriös, eifach saage: mer häns in 2min „ghacked“ – jä was heisst das? hän si über s ganze system die volli kontrolle; und hän si das ohni benutzerinteraktion am mac gschafft?
solangs nid handfesti bewies git, traui dere eischlägige quelle im internet nid.
Freidenker
news != herleitig… aso denn google mol drnoch… git sicher neume scho e beschribig. fuule hund 😉
Longneck
nöö, dr david söll das belegge. i gang sicher nid go google nach negativ-news über apple! 😛
rakudave
oohh, du arme… o_O
[quote]…which contained his exploit code, which then „allowed him to seize control of the computer, as the onlookers cheered him on.“ Of note, contestants could only use software that came pre-loaded on the OS, so obviously it was Safari that fell victim here. Nevertheless, he was forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement that’ll keep him quiet until „TippingPoint can notify the vendor,“[/quote]
(für was machi eigentlich die [via]-links immer unde iine…? 😉 )
Longneck
ok, ok… akzeptiert! 🙂
trotzdem: kei grund zum wächsle 😉
rakudave
vill spass mit em imperator 😉
*sing* ta ta ta ta-tata ta-tata */sing* 😛
Longneck
imperator?
Luke
jo, han ich au gläse. het mich doch verwunderet, nochdem ich dänkt ha, dass macs rächt sicher sin.
het mi aber gfreut, dass ubuntu nit ghackt worde isch, losst doch einiges in punkto sicherheit erwarte.