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Adobe Knew of Vista PWN 2 OWN Hack All Along

The PWN 2OWN contest, as we all know, saw the Mac OS X weed crumble first, with Vista following soon after. Ubuntu was the only OS that was impenetrable to attack, but news is surfacing that Vista should have had a longer lifeline, if only Adobe had patched the flaw they knew about all along. More »

3:30 PM on Sun Apr 6 2008
By Haroon Malik
18,797 views, 52 comments

Latest by blue moon: The best part of all the fall out from the pwn2own contest was the quote from the guy to took down Vista: He said that the same flaw would take down Linux, but he just didn't want to bother. So, Linux more »

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T Pities Fool Who Bids on Hacked Fujitsu U810 With Live Virus "Still Present"

Shane Macaulay, the hacker who beat a Vista-powered Fujitsu in last week's CanSec West PWN 2 OWN contest has listed the UMPC—with virus "still likely present"—on eBay. Some say this might be Macaulay's idea of a joke, but T doesn't think it's funny when hackers joke around with exploits, especially an Adobe Flash exploit that might "affect 90 percent of computers worldwide." Mac's alleged rationale:
This laptop is a good case study for any forensics group/company/individual that wants to prove how cool they are, and a live example, not canned of what a typical incident responce sitchiation [sic] would look like.
Note: We can't spot an April 1 listing of any Fujitsu U810 on eBay. [InfoWorld]

9:15 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,101 views, 12 comments

Latest by firesign: who the hell buys a used computer and doesn't totally wipe and redo the drive? i pity the foo'! more »