[Deaf-lug] Vista/OSX/Ubuntu hacking competition

[JGJones]

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up

OSX was the first to be hacked into (via an exploit in Safari so expect 
an update soon) on the 2nd day. The winner get to keep the Apple Macbook 
Air that he hacked into as well as $10,000 prize money.

Vista and Ubuntu both survived to the 3rd day and the Vista was hacked 
into via an exploit in latest version of Flash so the winner keep the 
laptop and $5000. Detail of exploit in Flash have been sent to Adobe so 
keep an eye out for an update to Flash. Ubuntu survived the competition.

Kudos to Microsoft for improving their security but it's good to see 
that no-one could break into Ubuntu despite the installation of 3rd 
party apps on the 3rd day.

Ironically many people who was attempting to hack into the above laptops 
was using Apple Macbook Pro's (although some do run some linux distro on 
it rather than OSX) and it was the first to fall.