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MacBook Air hacked in two minutes

Posted by: ADMIN on: March 30, 2008

Duringin the second annual Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver where competitors tried to hack Windows, Linux and Apple computers, the Macbook Air was the first to be compromised, taking the winner just two minutes to break into Apple’s new thin notebook.

Charlie Miller took only 2 minutes to win the $10,000 cash prize (and the MacBook Air) by discovering and exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in the Safari Web browser.

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