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MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes


Security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators managed to hack a MacBook Air using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari 3.1 Web browser.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
March 28, 2008 02:00 PM

Mac OS X's reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in two minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari 3.1 Web browser.
The ISE security researchers -- Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel -- were participating in the "PWN to OWN" competition at the CanSecWest security conference, which began Wednesday in Vancouver, British Columbia.

"Pwn" is computer gaming slang for "own," as in conquer. The "p" typo serves to heighten the humiliation of defeat by emphasizing that the loss came at the hands of a youth who can't even spell or type correctly. The term has also come to be used in security circles.

Contest participants had their choice of trying to hack an Apple MacBook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10, or a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. During the first day, when attacks were limited to network attacks on the operating system, no one managed to compromise any of the systems.

That changed Thursday when attacks on default client-side applications -- Web browser, e-mail, IM -- were allowed. The ISE team won $10,000 from security firm TippingPoint Technologies for compromising the MacBook Air.

The undisclosed vulnerability in Safari 3.1 has been shown to Apple and no further information about it will be revealed until Apple can issue an update, TippingPoint said.

In a blog post on Friday, TippingPoint said, "ince the Vista and Ubuntu laptops are still standing unscathed, we are now opening up the scope of the targets beyond just default installed applications on those laptops; any popular third-party application (as deemed 'popular' by the judges) can now be installed on the laptops for a prize of $5,000 upon a successful compromise."

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
 
OMG, wheres Sheep!!!! He should read this, it will deflate his huge Apple ego.

PWND!!!
 
In my opinion i thought the Mac Book Air had security problems thats why i did not get it. Its sad that they did not reply to you barefootbob i mean you spend your hard earned money and it gets hacked.
 
slimlite said:
In my opinion i thought the Mac Book Air had security problems thats why i did not get it. Its sad that they did not reply to you barefootbob i mean you spend your hard earned money and it gets hacked.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Macbook Air the exact same thing as all other Apple computer products? I mean the only difference is it is super thin and no optical drive, oh and is slightly slower than other Macs.

They hacked the OS (well Safari) not the computer persay.
 
Shane Macuay, the guy who hacked Vista, is pretty hot.
alex_k2.jpg

it's the guy on the left
 
^ Actually, Shane Macaulay is on the right.

That's Alexander Sotirov on the left.
 
lol oh. well Alexander is the hot one, Shane is still cute though.
 
Perhaps Microsoft should hold this sort of competition more often...you don't know how secure your own stuff is until you get the best and brightest together to hack it.
 
Well that doesn't sound good. Hopefully it will embarrass Apple enough to make them take security a little more seriously.
 
Security will always be a problem no matter what OS you use, or device. There will always be people out there who will be determined to hack. And no matter how secure a system or device may appear to be, there is always a way in.

I do hope Apple take the threat of security more seriously and strengthen their systems, but Apple has only a small percentage of the PC market. Apple should employ these guys to find weaknesses and devise ways of eliminating them.
 
"Pwn" is computer gaming slang for "own," as in conquer. The "p" typo serves to heighten the humiliation of defeat by emphasizing that the loss came at the hands of a youth who can't even spell or type correctly. The term has also come to be used in security circles.
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:rotflmao:
 
To put this into perspective, it was Safari that was hacked and by a security specialist, not some kid. What was the damage? Zero. He read a file that was put there for him to read. Did he gain access to the Keychain? No. Did he screw up the OS? No. I imagine the same was true with Vista that was hacked the next day. The difference? With the Air he got $5,000. more and got to keep the computer. Nuff said:p

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073258
 
That's it! From now on, every time I go to a hacker's competition, I'm ONLY booting Linux on my Mac.
 
sheep said:
To put this into perspective, it was Safari that was hacked and by a security specialist, not some kid. What was the damage? Zero. He read a file that was put there for him to read. Did he gain access to the Keychain? No. Did he screw up the OS? No. I imagine the same was true with Vista that was hacked the next day. The difference? With the Air he got $5,000. more and got to keep the computer. Nuff said:p

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073258
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Thats not much to say seeing how it was hacked before Vista of all things.
 
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