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Pwn2Own-annual computer security competition, where scientists obtain cash winnings and vie computer hardware through the use of Web browsers--ended last week and the results may surprise you.
The first browser to browser Apple Safari was hacked. Ars Technica, Peter Bright wrote Thursday, almost current 5.0.3. the version of Safari, on a current copy of Mac OS X 10.6.6, succumbed to a malicious page written by the scientists of the VUPEN security company, the French, in a few seconds.
They could attack the Mac calculator remote boot, and write a file on a flash drive, MacBook Air – earn them the right to have a laptop, according to the rules of competition.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, in Service Pack 1, Windows 7, later the same day. Bright's report notes that IE 8 hack involved more achievements and it took five to six weeks to build against two for Safari exploit.
On the second day of Pwn2Own (organised by the Austin-based subsidiary of HP TippingPoint DVLabs and annually takes place at the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver) iPhone 4 and BlackBerry smartphone has a successful pisálku the torch. Although the iPhone 4 was not running Apple just issued by the IDF 4.3-rules of competition only requires that the target device to be running the current software in the week before-in 4.3, also there is a vulnerability in the attack.
During the two days, no one even tried to challenge Google Chrome (though Google offers standalone cash prize to anyone who could hack a Chrome), Mozilla Firefox, Nexus, smartphones running Google's Android 2.3 operating system or venue to Dell For Microsoft Windows Phone 7.
(Google delivered the first patch for the vulnerability exploited to Pwn2Own, Computerworld, Gregg Keizer wrote this morning.)
Not much interpretation needed for these results, no? Apple Mac OS X is dangerously insecure platform – it was already successfully hacked in Pwn2Own every year since its debut in 2007 – that's to be avoided, if you do not want your computer to have took over the drive-by download.
Just ... it's not the actual experience of using a Mac. Or the iPhone. Apple computer and phone operating systems remain almost completely free of viruses, worms, and Trojans, even when Apple's market share has grown dramatically in both markets.
For example, that Apple now claims 20 percent of the American consumer market, a number that would be an unimaginably high was only 10 years ago. IOS is made up of 27 percent of the IPhone market in the u.s. smartphone, BlackBerry phones tied to Research In Motion and just for Google Android, according to the latest Nielsen research.
It will be enough to attract interest in malware authors even 20 percent of the market? I asked on Twitter and interesting answer from ZDNet on vet-eran Windows blogger Ed Bott. He said that "the authors of malware are the global numbers. OS x has a ~ 6% around the world. "
But if current trends continue, it may not be long before Mac hits 10 percent of the total market. Will that be enough? Or malware will be on the market, in which the marginalized. Mac users are facing dramatically worse selection software, compared to what is running on Windows?
Moves one of the latest Apple security suggests that has one idea of the direction in which things: for the first time in recent history, it is the sharing of advance copies of their upcoming operating system, Mac OS X lion with security researchers. What is your forecast for Mac malware? Let me know in the comments.
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