Monday March 31, 2008
Linux unbroken in hacking contest
Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
Linux was the runaway winner in the battle of the operating systems held at the CanSecWest conference.
Conference organisers ended a three-way hacking challenge on Friday with Linux running on a Sony Vaio remaining unbreached. Earlier in the day a Fujitsu running Vista was cracked by Shane Macauley, co-winner of last year's contest - the Apple MacBook had been broken into the on the previous day.
Macaulay needed a few hacking tricks courtesy of VMware researcher Alexander Sotirov to make his bug work. That's because Macaulay hadn't been expecting to attack the Service Pack 1 version of Vista, which comes with additional security measures. He also got a little help from co-worker Derek Callaway.
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