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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
18,679 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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Apple Acknowledges the MacBook Shutdown Flaw

Apple has finally acknowledged that there is a slight problem with some of the MacBooks out there. Random Shutdown Syndrome (RSS) has been plaguing MacBook owners for quite some time. A recent firmware update was supposed to fix it, but it didn't. So what does Apple say about it? "Just call us and we'll figure something out." Real classy, Apple. Hit up our compadres over at Consumerist for some more details about RSS. – Travis Hudson More »

3:59 PM on Thu Sep 7 2006
By Travis Hudson
718 views, 1 comment

Latest by Brad: Hah! My Dell, though there's a chance it'll explode, has never just shut down for no reason. Neither has my Toshiba.... more »