http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6046197.ht...46197&subj=news

Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.

On Feb. 22, the Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set up his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications.

Participants were given local client access to the target computer and invited to try their luck.

Within hours of going live, the "rm-my-mac" competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later, this poor little Mac was owned, and this page got defaced."

ahahahhahahhahaha pwned!!!!!!!!


maxx

old news but...

i'm surprised it took more than a few hrs. what is they werent given client access?

Wasn't the entire contest skewed to allow for such easy access?

yes, few days after a professor in some university made a contest but without giving client access to participants, I think it lasted a week (until the university decided they didn't want him to run a contest on their network) and in that time nobody could gain access to it