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It wasn't the money that led PWN 2 OWN Vista hacker Shane Macaulay to post his new laptop to eBay, and it wasn't bad spelling that got the listing canceled
A Flash vulnerability used to hijack a Windows Vista laptop at last month's "PWN To OWN" hacker challenge was independently found by two other researchers, one who first noted it almost five months ago
The Flash vulnerability used to hijack a Windows Vista laptop during last month's "PWN To OWN" hacker challenge was independently uncovered by two other researchers, one who noted it nearly five months ago, the company that paid the contest prize money said Thursday
...PWN 2 OWN results. I don't
Okay, having said that, given how obnoxious and misleading I find those Mac OS X ads and how they've spent millions of dollars publicly criticizing Windows Vista security improvements, I find it ironic and apropos that Mac OS X was the first machine to be owned in the PWN 2 OWN contest at CanSecWest today
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...PWN 2 OWN contest. I think these contest are kinda lame as they do not prove much, other than Charlie Miller was most likely sitting on a vulnerability waiting until the contest. I still think it is some what cool that there are people that are still interested in OS vulnerabilities
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In other news some swiss guys (P.S. I LOVE your...
A security researcher who hacked a MacBook Air at the "PWN To OWN" hacker challenge at CanSecWest chose to attack Apple Inc.'s operating system because "it was the easiest one" to go after
An Ubuntu Linux box was the last machine left standing in CanSecWest's PWN to OWN challenge , as Friday saw a successful hack on the Microsoft Vista box on the contest testbed. Shane Macauley picked up $5,000 for the successful hack