'Linux Ignored, Not Immune,' Says Hacker Contest Sponsor
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 19:59 UTC, submitted by daedalus8
Privacy, Security, Encryption People shouldn't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's 'PWN to OWN' hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux, said the security expert who oversaw the contest. "There was just no interest in Ubuntu," said Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Corp.'s TippingPoint subsidiary, which put up the cash prizes awarded at the contest last week at CanSecWest. "A contest such as this is not a measure of relative security between operating systems. It's not an accurate barometer."
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by wannabe geek on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 21:05 UTC
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2006-09-27

"Prior to joining TippingPoint, Terri was a Security Program Manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center, focused on driving the resolution of security vulnerabilities within Microsoft products."

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/team/tforslof

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shdriesner Member since:
2008-04-03

This at least explains why the vast majority of the second page is spent talking about how hard it was to hack Vista SP1. It is also interesting that there was no laptop submitted containing Windows XP with SP2/3...maybe they knew that would be too easy...

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jabbotts Member since:
2007-09-06

A security professional who worked in information security before his current job in information security? Say it isn't so!! What is this world coming too?


(hehe.. I couldn't resist)

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