At the CanSecWest security conference currently taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, there is a contest taking place to see if two MacBook Pro’s with the latest OS and patches installed can be hacked…. The rules are:The first winning hack requires a attacker to get a shell with user level privileges.The second winning hack requires the same plus the attacker needs to get root privileges. The second hack cannot use the same exploit as the first.Results:The first MacBook Pro has been successfully attacked by taking advantage of a flaw in Safari which can be triggered with a malicious web page.
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