Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Mac OS X Security Competition Ends in 30 Minutes
"ZDnet is running an article on how a Swedish Mac OS X enthusiast held a competition to prove how good security was on his new fully patched Mac Mini was. Unfortunately, 30 minutes after the competition began, a hacker known as 'gwerdna' had broken in and defaced the website, thus winning the contest. According to gwerdna, 'Mac OS X is easy pickings for bug finders. That said, it doesn't have the market share to really interest most serious bug finders.'." It's also worth noting a piece that says all the security news is much ado about nothing, in practical terms. The security contest also allowed people to have local access via SSH, so that had a lot to do with the crack.
source:http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/1446207
source:http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/1446207
# posted by dark master : 3/07/2006 09:35:00 AM
