Laptop with Vista Attack Codes...Tks eBay!

April 2008

Laptop, complete with Vista attack code, listed on eBay. The winner of a recent hacking contest is offering the computer he broke into for sale on eBay, possibly with the Microsoft Vista attack code he used intact. In a Monday listing, the man is selling the Fujitsu U810 laptop he won last Friday during the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest. His listing claims that exploit code could probably still be extracted from the machine. Although he makes no guarantees, he wrote, “My successfull [sic] exploitation of Vista SP1 remotely, is most likely still present. This laptop is a good case study for any forensics group/company/individual that wants to prove how cool they are, and a live example, not canned of what a typical incident responce sitchiation [sic] would look like.” The man was one of two hackers to claim laptops and cash prizes for penetrating systems during last week’s contest. Organizers offered Vista, Mac OS, and Linux-based laptops for the taking, along with prizes that varied from $5,000 to $20,000, depending on the difficulty of the exploit. By Friday, however, only the Linux laptop remained unbreached.