Shane Macaulay wins Vista hacking contest via Adobe vulnerability
March 29, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Microsoft, Windows Vista
Shane Macaulay won a Fujitsu U810 laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 during the final day of CanSecWest PWN2OWN 2008 contest. He also won $5,000 from contest sponsor, TippingPoint.
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The new Adobe Flash 0day vulnerability that Shane exploited has been acquired by the Zero Day Initiative, and has been responsibly disclosed to Adobe who is now working on the issue,” TippingPoint reports. “Until Adobe releases a patch for this issue, neither we nor the contestants will be giving out any additional information about the vulnerability.
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