Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The security researcher who walked away with $10,000 Thursday by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple Inc. 's operating system for one simple reason.
"It was the easiest one of the three," said Charlie Miller , a principal analyst with Independent Security Evaluators, a Baltimore-based security consultancy. "We wanted to spend as little time as possible coming up with an exploit, so we picked Mac OS X ." On Thursday afternoon, Miller breached a MacBook Air , one of three laptops up for grabs in the "PWN 2 OWN" hacker challenge at CanSecWest, a security conference that wraps up today in Vancouver, B.C. For his efforts, he was got the computer and a $10,000 cash prize.