Quoteth the DVLabs:

At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air, winning the laptop and $10,000 from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative.

Three computers (A Macbook Air, a Vista box and a Ubuntu box) were set up in parallel at a hacker conference in Vancouver to challenge the hackers to have their way with them - with prize money and the boxes up for grabs as each machine gets compromised. The very amusing thing (almost ironic given Apples security claim to fame) was the first box to succumb… Thats right… the Macbook Air…

Being hacked at one of these things isn’t that big a deal; but being hacked before the Vista box went down? Thats got to be hard for the Apple apologists to swallow. I can just see the Mac vs PC parodies springing up on youtube :p

Stay tuned to DVLabs blog though to see who is next to fall out of the remaining Ubuntu and Vista.

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