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by Stephen Withers
Friday, 28 March 2008
Page 1 of 2 ! Want to win a notebook? Head west quickly, young man. Related stories NASA and JAXA team up for silent supersonic aircraft Revamped virtualisation for Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows EyeTV 3.0.2 update adds features and even more polish Net Applications restates browser share figures Mozy goes Mac The annual CanSecWest conference, currently running in Vancouver, Canada features the PWN2OWN 2008 competition which gives attendees the chance to win a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN (Ubuntu 7.10), a Fujitsu U810 (Vista Ultimate SP1) or a MacBook Air (Mac OS X 10.5.2). How does the competition work? "You hack it, you get to keep it." The task set is to extract a specific file from the chosen system via the Ethernet port (RF attacks are acceptable "by special arrangement"). Each system is patched and in a "typical" configuration, and successful completion will require the execution of code on the laptop. Contestants have just 30 minutes to do the deed, and they have no physical access to the targets. All three systems survived the first day of the competition, which limited attacks to "Remotely exploitable Pre-Auth vulnerabilities which require no user interaction." That meant TippingPoint's $20,000 cash prize was safe. The second day widened the scope to "any default installed client-side applications which can be exploited by following a link through email, vendor supplied IM client or visiting a malicious website." CONTINUED << First page < 1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

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