Evers reports, “TippingPoint, which runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program, is offering to pay $10,000 to the hacker who commandeers one of two MacBooks. The target computers are connected to a wireless access point and fully patched, including the update for 25 vulnerabilities that Apple released on Thursday.”
“CanSecWest organizers have set up the MacBooks with all security updates, but without additional security software or settings. Attendees are able to connect to the machines via the access point through Ethernet or Wi-Fi,” Evers reports.
Full article here.
The CanSecWest home page states, “Gentlemen_Start_Your_PWNing: The 2.3Ghz 15″ Macbook Pro is on 192.168.0.42 and can be yours if you follow the instructions in the home of the default user, and the 2.3Ghz 17″ Macbook pro is on 192.168.0.43 and can be yours if you follow the instructions in the filesystem root (this one will need admin compromise).”
The eighth annual CanSecWest conference is being held April 18-20 at the Mariott Renaissance Harboursider hotel in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Link: http://cansecwest.com/post/2007-04-19-12:30:00.Gentlemen_Start_Your_PWNing
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shinobi” for the heads up.]
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