Mac OS Cracked in Hack Attack

Two security researchers at Canada's CanSecWest conference won big for being the first to hack into a Macintosh computer during a contest at the event. Initial interest in the contest was relatively lackluster, but then Tipping Point, a security vendor, upped the ante with a $10,000 bonus to the first person who could successfully hack one of the Macs using a previously unknown bug.


Just one day following Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple release of a security Barracuda Spam Firewall Free Eval Unit - Click Here update containing 25 patches, two security researchers at the CanSecWest conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, were able to hack into a MacBook using a zero-day exploit in Apple's Safari browser.

Shane Macauley, a software engineer, and Dino Dai Zovi, a security researcher, undertook the challenge as part of the "PWN to Own" Hack-a-Mac contest hosted by conference organizers.

The two were awarded a MacBook Pro computer and a US$10,000 prize.