Vampirefo
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-11
Huntington, WV | reply to daveinpoway
Re: Hackers to challenge Windows, Mac OS X and Linux next week
I am guessing vista will be the easiest of the 3 to hack.
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Link Logger
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join:2001-03-29
Calgary, AB
 ·Shaw
| said by Vampirefo  :I am guessing vista will be the easiest of the 3 to hack. I'll say that OS X will be the first to fall again, and once again Apple will refuse to accept that it was owned, just like last year.
Blake |
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Steve
Security is inefficient
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Tustin, CA
| reply to Vampirefo
said by Vampirefo :I am guessing vista will be the easiest of the 3 to hack. If I had a zero-day Vista remote attack, I'd never waste it on something like this. I'd instead sell it for far, far more money on the black market.
Steve
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Vampirefo
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-11
Huntington, WV | true, LOL. |
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
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Bragging rights to Blake. 
This one is pretty bad though. It is pretty normal websurfing and/or email-reading behavior and even though people really should know better than click on links they aren't sure of, how many OS X users have been brainwashed into thinking they can't get infected or 'owned' so they are not really on guard as they should be?
I would call this a pretty serious "hack" since it really doesn't require anything but a plain vanilla OS X installation and normal surfing behavior.
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daveinpoway
join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA | I am curious as to whether OS X asked for the user's password before executing the hack. |
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astirusty
Premium
join:2000-12-23
Henderson, NV
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to Steve
said by Steve :If I had a zero-day Vista remote attack, ... I'd instead sell it for far ... You have hit on one thing that is wrong with the contest.
The awards don't represent the market share of the respective OSs and the value of a hack. Thus, the contest doesn't attract the black-hats to give-up a valuable Vista hack as it would a Linux hack. The contest would need to offer something like $88,000 for Vista hack, while paying only $8,000 for OS-X hack, and $4,000 for Ubuntu (or some $$ award vs. % market).
I also wonder how many black-hats really would give up a hack for money; knowing it would draw attention to themselves.
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