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Charlie Miller, a security researcher who hacked a Macintosh in two minutes last year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time today by breaking into another Macintosh in under 10 seconds

"I can't talk about the details of the vulnerability, but it was a Mac, fully patched, with Safari, fully patched," said Miller on Wednesday, not long after he had won the prize. "It probably took five or 10 seconds." He confirmed that he had researched and written the exploit before he arrived at the challenge.
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seeing that happened 6 months ago i'm sure they patched it in an update since then
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Yay for bringing old news back up :P
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seeing that happened 6 months ago i'm sure they patched it in an update since then
Oh don't worry, he will probably hack it again... and again... and again.
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We love old news!
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lol ;-)
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