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:With Vista Breached, Linux Unbeaten in Hacking Contest
With Vista Breached, Linux Unbeaten in Hacking Contest
Mar 30, 2008, 21 :00 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (9298 reads)

(Other stories by Robert McMillan)

[ Thanks to stonyandcher for this link. ]

"The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

"Earlier this week, contest sponsors had put three laptops up for grabs to anyone who could hack into one of the systems and run their own software. A US$20,000 cash prize sweetened the deal, but the payout was halved each day as contest rules were relaxed and it became easier to penetrate the computers..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
that windows didn't get cracked befo ...   What a relief   
ue
Mar 30, 2008, 23:10:46
 
ue, did u read the article ?If u want to ...   ue   
patrick_darcy
Mar 31, 2008, 00:50:41
 
The Vista hack was via a Flash vulnerabi ...   FWIW   
Charles Hixson
Mar 31, 2008, 01:56:59
 
> I think we should believe him.Not nece ...   Re: FWIW   
Robert Devi
Mar 31, 2008, 02:13:08
 
[...].> the crack in Vista was more or l ...   Re: What a relief   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 31, 2008, 09:01:38
 
> The guy who made the hack said that he ...   Re: FWIW   
bobby
Mar 31, 2008, 20:29:33
 
[...].> And then some people in the audi ...   Re: Re: FWIW   
Rainer Weikusat
Apr 1, 2008, 08:24:49
 
> Flash or not, if the OS allows you to  ...   Re: Re: FWIW   
blackhole
Apr 1, 2008, 09:04:13
 
> > And then some people in the audience ...   Re: Re: Re: FWIW   
bobby
Apr 1, 2008, 13:01:09
 
> > > And then some people in the audien ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: FWIW   
Rainer Weikusat
Apr 1, 2008, 14:01:19
 
I can't remember the last time I hea ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FWIW   
bobby
Apr 1, 2008, 15:47:35
 
http://thetuxproject.com/node/300#commen ...   How embarrassing   
Jose_X
Apr 14, 2008, 03:32:04
 
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