Apple's OS X is First OS to be Hacked at This Year's Pwn2Own(Hacked in 5 Seconds)

Apple's OS X is First OS to be Hacked at This Year's Pwn2Own Charlie Miller lets someone else win a MacBook for a change The conception that Apple, Inc. computers running OS X are magically more secure than Windows computers was dealt another setback this week. Using a flaw in Apple's pre-installed first-party Safari browser, it took French security pro Chaouki Bekrar merely 5 seconds to hijack the unwitting MacBook at the CanSecWest Conference's pwn2own contest in Vancouver, British Columbia. On a most basic level the attack exploited Apple's weak memory protections in OS X Snow Leopard. Microsoft, more popular...