Mac first to fall in hacking contest

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Perhaps surprisingly the fully patched Mac was the first machine to succumb to hacking attempts in the Pwn2Own contest which pits fully patched Vista, Linux and MacOS X systems against each other. Successfully executing code remotely on the machine wins you $10000 and the machine you cracked:

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	A brand-new MacBook Air running a fully patched version of Leopard was the first to fall in a contest that pitted the security of machines running OS X, Vista and Linux. The exploit took less than two minutes to pull off. Charlie Miller, who was the first security researcher to remotely exploit the iPhone, felled the Mac by tapping a security bug in Safari. The exploit involved getting an end user to click on a link, which opened up a port that he was then able to telnet into. Once connected, he was able to remotely run code of his choosing. The feat won him a $10,000 prize paid by Tipping Point, whose Zero Day Initiative pays bounties to researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.

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