![]() ![]() “There’s a difference between safety and security,” he said. ![]() Dai Zovi said he considers the Mac safe, but not secure. Miller and Dai Zovi say their work is designed to bring attention to serious security problems in the Mac platform, which has largely avoided the wide-scale attacks that have plagued Windows for years. In an interview, Miller said he had hoped to demonstrate it before an audience at CanSecWest, but was prevented from doing so because of Pwn2Own contest rules, which prohibit public discussion of bugs exploited in the contest. ![]() ![]() The hack was done before contest organizers. On Wednesday, Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, won US$5,000 and a Mac laptop by using a previously unknown Safari vulnerability to hack into a Mac system. Miller and Dai Zovi earned fame in previous years for hacking Macintosh computers at CanSecWest’s annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. ![]()
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