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JQPublic
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« on: March 30, 2008, 08:05:37 PM » |
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Vista and Mac fall prey yet Ubuntu rumbles on :lol: CanSecWest A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft's Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained standing following the three-day competition. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/ubuntu_left_standing/ |
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Timster
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 10:33:34 PM » |
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Thanks for posting this. There's a Mac guy at work who always rags on Vista and M$ in general being unsecure, and I'm going to be sure to send this to him.
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MrbLOB9000
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2008, 11:03:50 PM » |
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ya, the guy that hacked it said MacOS was by far the easiest to hack.
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2008, 11:28:27 PM » |
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really? i never guessed that by it losing the competition  don't mind me  i'm just in off the bike and there is a severe lack of oxygen in my head. this is the one thing i find rather odd ubunhtu is the distro used by near EVERY company etc etc in benchmarks and reviews etc, and ut always comes out top, yet it still looks like a piece of poo! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2008, 11:31:41 PM » |
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Some do style over substance and Ubuntu does substance over style.
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hugh
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2008, 12:27:32 AM » |
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the style is what draws me to linux  |
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« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2008, 05:44:29 PM » |
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Excellent post. Wish I could post a link on every Mac-fanatic website. Just made my day.
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« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2008, 08:46:53 PM » |
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I'm actually curious how Ubuntu withstood the third day, as I understood it the third day was by far the easiest and allowed you to install a malware app on the target PC. I don't know how any OS could seriously withstand something like that, I can think of a few scripts right off that would seriously compromise a Linux box if I had console access and a user account.
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MrbLOB9000
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« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2008, 09:23:45 PM » |
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apparently the dude who oversaw the contest said everyone just ignored the linux box http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9074102&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8also: Part of that move toward applications, Forslof said, has been forced on hackers as operating systems have become more secure. This year's contest put that into relief when Macaulay initially had a tough time breaking into the Fujitsu notebook running Vista Service Pack 1.
"SP1 was a huge challenge to him," said Forslof. "When he walked in, he was strutting, he was going to own [that machine], he was going to break it in two minutes, he was going to wow the crowd."
That didn't happen, at least not immediately. Macaulay had prepared an exploit, said Forslof, but he had not tested it against Vista's SP1, which was released to the general public only two weeks ago. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2008, 10:50:20 PM » |
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Does Ubuntu (or linux in general) tend to sandbox apps more than Vista or OSX?
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