PWN to OWN contest happened here in Vancouver
The three-day PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest security conference finished today here in Vancouver.Β The contest this year includes three laptops, running the most up to date and patched installations of MacOS X Leopard, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux on MacBook Air, Fujitsu U810, and Sony VAIO, respectively.
All of them are survived after day 1 which only allows remote pre-auth type attack.Β MacBook Air was the only one compromised on day 2 because of one vulnerability in Safari browser.Β Vista was defeated almost the last minute in the last day because of the hole in Adobe Flash.Β Sony VAIO with Ubuntu smiles in the end.
Not bad, all OS are very good in security.Β I thought Vista might be the first one being compromised but thank to IE7 team who did a good job to lock down the browser, which kept Vista alive for the first 2 days in the contest. The result should give more people the confident to use computer but also warned that human, not computer self, is the most thread to the computer system.Β It also sent message to all 3rd party software providers that be careful of designing your products or you will be next one to blame.
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