“The contest started around midday Thursday, the second day of the CanSecWest conference here and triggered interest from hackers in attendance… Organizers say they have seen ‘some activity’ on the network set up with the two new MacBooks — a 17″ and a 15″ — but details remained scarce when the day ended,” Naraine reports. “To win, the attacker must commandeer the machine and find a file with instructions on how to SSH to a server to authenticate the hijack.”
Naraine reports, “On the second day, the barrier will be lowered a bit and the attackers will be allowed to put exploit code on a special wiki and launch drive-by exploits on the Mac’s built-in Safari browser. If the machines survive this level, the attacker will be allowed to connect to over USB or Bluetooth.”
Full article here.
If they really want to give away the MacBooks and the $10,00 prize, on the third day they ought to install Boot Camp and Windows on them. It would probably take about 10 minutes to find a winner.
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