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Our Blogs Core Dump Two out of three ain't bad
Our Blogs Core Dump Two out of three ain't bad | Two out of three ain't bad |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 31 March 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 3 Firstly, none of the computers were compromised on the first day, which only allowed remotely exploitable vulnerabilities with no user interaction. That's the good news - it implies that the days of our computers being vulnerable to takeover just because they were connected to the Internet are over. Secondly, you shouldn't read too much into reports about how little time any particular team took to break into a system. It's safe to say that hours of work went into developing the winning attacks, and that anyone capable of finding an suitable exploit would also be able to put together a tool that at least partially automates an attack. Indeed, winner Charlie Miller told Computerworld that "It took us maybe a week altogether". Nor is there any significance in how early in the day any particular computer was won. Teams were randomly allocated 30 minute slots to attempt their hacks, and once someone had succeeded no further exploits were accepted. |
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