Linux has not been cracked after the hacker cracking competition ends

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Foreign media reported that the global hackers' conference in Canada came to an end on Friday. apart from installing the Linux Sony Vaio laptop, another Fujitsu notebook with Vista installed was also cracked on the last day.

On Wednesday, the world's top hacker competition "CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN" kicked off in Vancouver. the organizer provided three laptops running different operating systems for contestants to launch attacks, linux, Mac OS X, and Vista. The winner will receive a $20 thousand prize and a cracked notebook. However, with the passage of time, bonuses are also shrinking, and each day will be halved.

On the first day of the competition, the organizer stipulated that contestants can only conduct network attacks based on the system itself, instead of using user interaction. due to the difficulty, all participating teams failed to break through the attack.

Apple's Microsoft operating system has been cracked

The next day, Thursday, the organizer relaxed attack rules to allow contestants to lure attacked users to access websites containing malicious code or open email attachments containing malicious code. A team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators, such as Charlie Miller, assisted by TippingPoint, a network Security department of 3Com, using the prepared malicious code and a vulnerability in the Safari browser, the MacBook Air notebook was successfully cracked within two minutes. In addition to the $10 thousand prize, the team also took the broken notebook home.

On Friday, a team consisting of Jon Macaulay and others broke the Vista notebook. McCawley was one of the winners of last year's hacking contest. Since we did not know that the target of the attack was to install the Vista version of SP1, mckeli completed the attack under the guidance of VMware experts.

According to the competition regulations, both McCaw and Miller shall not disclose the system vulnerabilities they have attacked to the outside until the relevant software companies release patches. However, McCaw revealed that "the vulnerability exists elsewhere, but the inherent nature of Java allows us to avoid Microsoft's security protection mechanism ." "This has an impact on Linxu or Mac OS X," McCaw told the media after winning the prize on Friday ".

McCawley explained that he chose Vista because he had contracted a project for Microsoft, so he was more familiar with Microsoft products. Miller explained that Mac is the target of attack because Mac is relatively easy to attack. In this regard, McCaw did not deny that "I think this is possible ."

Although a few participating teams tried to attack the Linux system, they were not successful. According to network security experts, some of the 400 hackers who participated in the competition did find the Linux vulnerability, but did not develop the attack code as required by the competition.