Organizers of CanSecWest are organizing a “PWN to OWN†content. PWM is an internet slang which means ‘to soundly defeat an opponent’. The contest is held on April 18-20 in Vancouver. Two Apple Macbook Pro will be the target, whoever successfully breaks into the machine can take it home along with $10000 in cash.
Both the Macbooks are connected to a wireless access point and are fully patched, including the latest patch which fixed 25 vulnerabilities that was released by Apple on Thursday. These machines are not loaded with any addition security software or settings and attendees can connect to the machines via WiFi or Ethernet. The original reward was just a MacBook, but attendees found that reward was not big enough to draw any interest.
They should have included two Windows machines and two Linux machines into the contest as well. None of these operating systems have the perfect security, but it’ll be interesting to see hackers fight to tame these machines. For developers, it’ll be a great way to find loopholes and fix them. For organizers, it’s an interesting way to give away the computers.
Source: News.com
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