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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
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Page 2 of 2 The MacBook Air was the first to fall. Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators exploited a newly discovered vulnerability in Safari to win the Apple notebook plus $10,000 cash.
Details of the vulnerability will not be published until Apple releases a patch. Even if the vulnerability is also present in the Windows version of Safari, competition rules mean it cannot now be used to win the Fujitsu. That suggests that the ISE team wanted to win the MacBook Air rather than the Windows notebook - a possibility that is borne out by the fact that the winning attack was carried out from a MacBook.
The third day will add a selection of popular third-party programs to the mix, with the cash prize dropping to $5000.
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