Hack-A-Mac Contest and the Mac Faithful
By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com
There is plenty of righteous indignation around the blogosphere this week in response to the CanSecWest "hack-a-Mac" contest. Of course, the inevitable happened, and a software engineer named Shane Macaulay, along with his associate Dino Dai Zovi, won the prize, hacking into a MacBook through a zero-day security flaw in Safari. The response varies from "say it ain't so!" to just plain "it ain't so." Unfortunately, regardless of platform, denial is the biggest security flaw of all.
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There is plenty of righteous indignation around the blogosphere this week in response to the CanSecWest "hack-a-Mac" contest. Of course, the inevitable happened, and a software engineer named Shane Macaulay, along with his associate Dino Dai Zovi, won the prize, hacking into a MacBook through a zero-day security flaw in Safari. The response varies from "say it ain't so!" to just plain "it ain't so." Unfortunately, regardless of platform, denial is the biggest security flaw of all.
Read the full article here.
Subscribe to Blog Insights - A weekly recap of what bloggers are saying about information technology.
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