Pwn2Own Contest-Osx and Vista Fail yet ubuntu prevails

 Pwn2Own a security computer contest featuring the latest

OS’s of Linux- Ubuntu Distro
Windows-Vista and Osx-Leopard and load them all onto a laptop factory edition and give hackers a chance to use a known security exploit to win the contest and claim the laptop and a cash prize. This years contest featured a macbook air,fujistu U810, and i believe it was toshiba running Ubuntu but dont quote me on that. Anyways throughout it all the hackers had 3-days to hack the os using on
1st day- Whats on the os just core files etc, faults in the actual system
2nd- OS and Applications that came bundle on the OS
3rd- 3rd Party Software

Surprisingly the Mac OSX -Leopards Macbook Air was first to fall , (I thought vista would) as the exploint in the 2nd day showed a bug in safari’s web kit development and the hacker was able to gain complete control of the laptop.

Charlie Miller was the first prize winner and 2nd to fall came vista being exploited through a Adobe Flash bug and Ubuntu Linux , one of the geekier os out there yet built on a very tough “Unix” Kernel wasn’t hacked at all within the 3-days.

With this it brought a vibe through the mac community raising the question “Can I get hacked” well no OS it perfect (in this case UBUNTU was though lol) ,but no matter how secure the os is there will always be a flaw but the good thing about this contest is it will deliver the complete exploit and plan of the hack to the providers Microsoft,Apple, Linux and let them know so they can patch it.

So overall a great contest and much was learned now whether this means Vista is more secure than OSX , Not by a long shot as it will determine on one the exploit and of course the hacker whos taking control. Anyhow that’s all for this Pwn2Own Contest

GRATZ to all the winners and hope you all enjoyed the blog for more info head over to the cnet link here at

http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9905095-37.html?tag=nefd.only

Further details will be released after the patch has been issued

Kidguru