Gear Up: OS X Hacking Report Prompts New Challenge

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via vnunet.com.

[snip]

The University of Wisconsin has launched a competition in which hackers are challenged to hack into an OS X system 
connected to the internet.

[The University of Wisconsin] challenge in response to a similar competition last month where a blogger created user 
accounts for contestants on a Mac Mini computer and challenged them to hack into the system by defacing a website.

[snip]

vnunet.com article:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2151455/false-hacking-report-prompts

Earlier 'OS X hacked in under 30 minutes' article:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Mac_OS_X_hacked_in_less_than_30_minutes/0,2000061744,39241748,00.htm

- ferg



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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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