Archive for March, 2008

MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators managed to hack a MacBook Air using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.

By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
March 28, 2008
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000434

Mac OS X’s reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in two minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.

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