Mac security researcher wins Pwn2Own contest with Safari hack →
Prince McLean reports on the recent news about Safari hacked under 10 seconds:
Charlie Miller arrived at the CanSecWest conference with a prepared exploit to use in cracking Safari running on Mac OS X.
Unsurprisingly, Miller was able to use his exploit to immediately win the event’s “Pwn2Own” contest, generating headlines that suggested that Macs are inherently less secure, despite the fact that every browser involved in the contest failed on the first day.
Look at it this way, if Miller has hacked Windows in two minutes, would he have made the news? No. Also, who’s going to count all those ‘seconds’ he used to prepare the exploit days before coming for the contest?
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This is a lame excuse for the security of Mac.. all the hackers would have prepared for their respective machines which they wanted to hack.. Apple really needs to focus on the security of their browser now..