Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
29-03-2008, 20:09
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Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
At the risk of putting the cat among the pigeons, I thought some folk here might find the results of the CanSecWest pwn2own contest interesting.
After 3 days of attempting to crack "off-the-shelf" laptops (although with more vulnerabilities each day), the Ubuntu laptop remains unhacked. To be fair, the Vista laptop nearly made it through and it did take the inclusion of some Adobe software to succeed though.
More details at http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/...wn-to-own-2008
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29-03-2008, 23:27
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Re: Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
I have no problem with Linux and agree that it's a really secure OS. I have tried it (well, only a couple of them anyway lol) and it's just not the OS for me.
Interesting to see the Apple OS get hacked pretty quickly.
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30-03-2008, 11:07
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Re: Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
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I knew there was a reason i opted not to post this anywhere yesterday 
Apparently some cynics,obviously forgetting about the $10,000, reckon the MBA was only compromised first because it was the most desirable and expensive machine there.....
If only they`d changed that default Ubuntu scheme things might have been soooo different eh. 
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30-03-2008, 12:54
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Can't get Ubuntu to run on this x64 lappy. Never could on my dell desktop either, not even the live CD.  |
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30-03-2008, 13:01
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Re: Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
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I knew there was a reason i opted not to post this anywhere yesterday
Apparently some cynics,obviously forgetting about the $10,000, reckon the MBA was only compromised first because it was the most desirable and expensive machine there.....
If only they`d changed that default Ubuntu scheme things might have been soooo different eh. |
What would have balanced things out is having the same make/model of laptop running each os, just one laptop running each os.
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30-03-2008, 18:32
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Can't get Ubuntu to run on this x64 lappy. Never could on my dell desktop either, not even the live CD. |
When I tried Ubuntu, it wouldn't let me use 1280x1024 for my monitor resolution, the max it would let me set was 1024x768 which looks awful on my TFT. |
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30-03-2008, 20:53
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When I tried Ubuntu, it wouldn't let me use 1280x1024 for my monitor resolution, the max it would let me set was 1024x768 which looks awful on my TFT.
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Drivers??
Currently have both 19" & 22" screens working fine here @ 1440x900 & 1680x1050 respectively.
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What would have balanced things out is having the same make/model of laptop running each os, just one laptop running each os.
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Agreed, doing that makes it entirely about the OS and not about the underlying hardware.
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31-03-2008, 01:09
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Drivers??
Currently have both 19" & 22" screens working fine here @ 1440x900 & 1680x1050 respectively.
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Most likely, it was the standard drivers that came with the OS. Didn't find much on the nvidia site about Linux drivers, and even if I had, I wouldn't have known what to do with them! LOL |
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31-03-2008, 11:52
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Most likely, it was the standard drivers that came with the OS. Didn't find much on the nvidia site about Linux drivers, and even if I had, I wouldn't have known what to do with them! LOL
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You would indeed struggle getting the higher resolutions with the included NV driver but the Restricted Drivers Manager should have informed you about the option of installing the accelerated Nvidia driver,depending how long ago you tried the thing that is 
Thats one of the easier method anyway.
As far as the the last OS standing was concerned......Mr Macaulays having none of it
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Plenty of commentators have made hay of the MacBook Pro being the first to exit the race, and Linux zealots are sure to conclude the contest results prove the superiority of that platform. Maybe. But that's not how it looks to Macaulay, who says with a few hours of tweaking, his exploit will also work on OS X and Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03...left_standing/
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31-03-2008, 12:22
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Re: Ubuntu survives pwn2own contest
Wasn't his exploit based on Safari though? I know that Apple ported it to Windows recently but wasn't aware it ran on Linux too.
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Wasn't his exploit based on Safari though? I know that Apple ported it to Windows recently but wasn't aware it ran on Linux too.
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Charlie Miller did the MBA with the Safari exploit on day one while
Macaulays(& Co) was the Flash exploit on day 2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03...left_standing/
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