MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes

Subject: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 1:49 am

Mac owners take heed. Your machine may not be as safe as you think it is.

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While Microsoft's Windows OS has along been slammed as the hackers dream, it was a MacBook Air that broke down first under the hands of hackers at this year's CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, B.C., according to TippingPoint, the contest's sponsor.

The contest, called Pwn 2 Own, gave hackers three systems, one running Linux, one running Windows Vista and the MacBook Air.

The winner got to take home $10,000 in cold hard cash, and whichever machine he or she compromised. The amount decreased after the first day when all three machines remained un-hacked.

On day two, for $10,000, security researcher Charlie Miller was able to use an exploit in Apple's Safari Web browser to point the MacBook Air to a Web site that loaded malicious code, giving him control of the machine in just two minutes, according to TippingPoint.

Contestants signed NDA agreements with TippingPoint that they would keep the exploits they used under wraps until the vendors could be notified of the vulnerabilities.

The vulnerability has been purchased by the Zero Day Initiative, and has been made known to to Apple, which is now working on the issue, TippingPoint said. "Until Apple releases a patch for this issue, neither we nor the contestants will be giving out any additional information about the vulnerability," TippingPoint said. In addition to the $10,000 cash prize, Miller also gets to keep the MacBook Air.

Last year's contest was also won by an Apple-exploiter, who was able to hack a MacBook Pro in nine hours.

Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 1:54 am

another sad day for Apple :'(

Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 1:55 am

alxmarcond wrote:: another sad day for Apple :'(

yeah lol, macbook was so easy to hack xD
last year the prize was to a person who hacked a macbook pro in 9hrs tongue

, but this is just funny

Senior Member From : Washington OS : Mac OS X Leopard

Dang it.

Well, I dont care, when i have my MacBook Pro. I will pwn everyone. So. Skru the hackers.

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

well 9 hrs is still a long time. but i still feel safer because u dont really have spyware

Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 3:00 am

one question. what kind of linux? oh wait. i have two. what were the other times?

Administrator From : England OS :  Leopard 10.5.6

LOL

thats funny, but a bit scary if you had a MBa..

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

well no one here does. our why it sucks thread is pretty much a way of saying "DO NOT BUY THIS". haha

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Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 11:40 am

its also a way to drive away die hard mac fanboys tongue

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

only from that. but for their true products im still a fanboy tongue

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

thats only if you are on a macbook air....you cant hack a mac if your just online

Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes March 29th 2008, 12:52 pm

alxmarcond wrote:: its also a way to drive away die hard mac fanboys

not seeing that, it just drives me away from he thinking about getting a macbook air tongue

Subject: Re: MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes July 3rd 2008, 11:29 am

hum, no point and Lbroskee, 9 hours is not a long time to hack something.. but ok.

Still MAC + Linux are way more secure than windows.. piece of crap (i just use it to play CS:source LOL)

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

How can it be only the MacBookAir? Surely if they all run OSX Leopard, every mac can be hacked?

Regular Visitor From : Florida OS : XP Pro

So it got hacked using an exploit on the Safari browser, well theres always firefox. xDD