In what looked like a Pwn2Own rerun, the CanSecWest conference this week saw security researcher Charlie Miller crack Safari on a machine running Mac OS X again. Miller was able to use an exploit he had already prepared to win the contest, just like he did last year. The researcher has granted the reporting rights of... |
19 March 2009
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Charlie Miller, the security researcher who won last year’s Pwn2Own hacker contest, expects this year's showdown to be even worse for Apple's web browsing application. According to his predictions, as many as four different individuals may be able to hack Safari this time around. Last year, Miller exp... |
4 March 2009
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Ubuntu 7.10 is the only operating system that has survived unscathed from a hacking competition hosted by CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 and sponsored by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. Outside of the Canonical distribution of the Linux operating system, Apple's Mac OS X Leopard was the first to be owned in ... |
31 March 2008
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Without a doubt, in the face-off between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, the platforms' strong and weak points contribute to the subjective superiority of one product over the others. The top operating system is ultimately a combination of marketing and consumer perspective. But once in a while the three platforms ... |
20 March 2008
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There is a potential Mac OS X, Linux and Windows Vista hack fiesta in the making, at this year's CanSecWest security research conference. The CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 is the ninth annual CanSecWest conference and will take place March 26-28, in Vancouver, Canada. The event is an opportunity for open interaction... |
7 February 2008
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On the heels of an all out Apple security patch marathon two months in the run, a hacker took just a single day to hack a Macbook Pro fully patched. On March 13 2007, on Microsoft's security updates sabbatical month, Apple made available no less than 45 patches for vulnerabilities across the Mac OS X operating s... |
23 April 2007
11:19 GMT |
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