
For only two minutes work Charlie Miller, an analyst at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a Baltimore-based security consultancy, walked away with $10,000 by hacking into a MacBook Air. The easiest exploit of the three options was the Mac OS X. The MacBook Air was running the current version of Mac OS X, 10.5.2, with all the latest security patches applied. The other two computers included a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 and a Fujitsu U810 notebook running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, were also up to date and fully patched.