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A three-way hacking contest between Apple, Windows and Linux laptops has ended in the Mac caving in first - in just two minutes.. Researcher wins US$10,000 bounty with JavaScript attack. Gartner took a jab at TippingPoint and CanSecWest officials this week, criticising them for a recent hacking contest that revealed a then-unpatched flaw in QuickTime. Apple on Thursday released 13 patches, fixing 17 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. Researchers at TippingPoint said today that the vulnerability exploited last week to hack into a MacBook Pro at CanSecWest also affects Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser on the Windows Vista operating system. On the day of his boss' heated Democratic primary contest, the campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., accused supporters of opponent Ned Lamont a new political dirty trick: hacking into Lieberman's campaign website and disabling email distribution. A Californian court has dropped criminal charges against the former chairwoman of HP, Patricia Dunn, closing a chapter in the IT giant's spy scandal case. Properly planned and executed staff education makes employees more responsible and reaps tangible business benefits. Paul Hansford reports Less than two weeks after Gartner disparaged TippingPoint's connection to a flaw-finding contest at a recent IT security conference, Frost & Sullivan commended the organisation for research leadership and market growth. Apple on Monday patched a now infamous flaw in its QuickTime media player first discovered in a hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference last month. And you thought you had it bad. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is claiming Symantec owes it up to $1 billion in income taxes as a result of the anti-virus giant’s acquisition last year of storage management vendor Veritas. A senior Apple systems engineer, not impressed by a recent overseas hacking challenge in which the winner reportedly gained root access to a Mac Mini in under 30 minutes, has launched his own security challenge. Two hackers have some more spending money in their pockets after figuring out how to run Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system on an Intel Mac. An Apple system engineer’s challenge to hack into a web page hosted by a Mini Mac is closed – and nobody was able to succeed. The industry’s leading virtualization software developer put $200,000 up for grabs on Monday to promote the community development of virtualized appliances. Saint is a venerable product with its roots in the earliest days of automated vulnerability assessment. It has been dressed up in a new suit of clothes since becoming a commercial product, but retains its strong Unix roots. In a bizarre bid to attract beta testers an IT security company is offering 1,000 German beers and a meeting with Count Dracula to the software engineer who most thoroughly tests its Linux-based antivirus offering. Like the living dead, armies of “zombie” computers are disrupting corporate networks and sucking the life out of business-critical systems around the world. Zombies strike fear into the hearts of IT personnel responsible for maintenance of corporate networks, and particularly those charged with protecting and ensuring the availability of vital corporate email systems. A $25,000 hunt for the first Mac OS X virus has been cancelled, by the company that initiated it. An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge ruled in favor of Trend Micro in a patent infringement suit against security appliance maker Fortinet.