MacBook Hacked In Contest Via Zero-Day Hole in Safari

EMB Numbers writes "Shane Macaulay just won a MacBook as a prize for successfully hacking OS X at CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, BC. The hack was based on a Safari vulnerability found by Dai Zovi and written in about 9 hours. CanSecWest organizers actually had to relax the contest rules to make the hack possible, because initially nobody at the event could breach the computers under the original restrictions. 'Dai Zovi plans to apply for a $10,000 bug bounty TippingPoint announced on Thursday if a previously unknown Apple bug was used. "Shane can have the laptop, I want the money," Dai Zovi said in a telephone interview from New York. TippingPoint runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program.'"

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[BorgCopyeditor]

that's it! I'm switching back to Windows!

Re:So, if I reaf TFA correctly:

[Divebus]

Relaxed rules = they gave out the root password and let them sit at the keyboard for a while.

Re:editors ftl

[Anonymous Coward]

Normally we make fun of Slashdot editors for not being able to spell simple English terms familiar to a mass audience correctly. They loose there audience when they do that. Usually they can get their terms of art correct. Not this time. (Not a sentence)

Guys, it's spelled "0day", and it has been since before you l33ch3d Karateka on a catfur. Do have some sense of perspective. (Question mark?)

See me.

Re:Admin user or regular user?

[geekoid]

because you can encrypt your personal documents, and if many users are on it only one of them gets hit.

However, if someone has access to root, they can do a lot more malicous things. bots, keloggers, etc...