As last year's winner,and defending champion, Miller received the first time slot to make his hacking attempt and again chose to attack OS X. Two minutes into his assault with an attack that took three weeks to find and prepare with the assistence of his two ex-NSA computer-security employees, OS X fell to this now closed, previously un-revealed vulnerability, securing this year's win, $10,000, and a MacBook Pro for Miller.
Windows 7 and Linux also fell under the first assaults aimed at their defenses by the expert hackers at CanSec West. All attacks were pre-prepared this year, unlike previous years' contests, where Miller was the only one who came with a pre-researched, prepared exploit.
Apple has release the patch to close the security vulnerability disclosed and exploited by Charlie Miller when he won this year's CanSec West computer security Blackhat hacking contest earlier this month by hacking into a MacBook Pro and winning the laptop and $10,000!
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