Wednesday, 2. April 2008
Topic: e-bay - on April 2, 2008 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
eBay pulls Vista laptop pwned in hacking contest
An eBay listing for the Windows Vista laptop that was successfully compromised at last week's Pwn2Own hacking contest was removed after the online auctioneer said it violated terms the forbid sales of items that might do harm.
Shane Macaulay, who felled the machine with code that attacked a weakness in Adobe Flash, posted the listing late Monday night, California time. Within two hours, he said in an interview, he received an automated email that said the auction had been suspended.
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