Only Ubuntu left standing, as Flash vuln fells Vista in Pwn2Own hacking contest

Contestant overcomes bout of ‘hacktile dysfunction’
CanSecWest A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft’s Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained standing following the three-day competition.…

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