samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2007 | apple, security, mac osx"An anonymous Info Sec researcher claims to have developed a fully automated and ready to use Mac OS X worm. How long can Mac users rely on Apple to protect them from security threats? It comes as no surprise to me that Mac OS X, like any other large-scale coding project, contains bug. Serious bugs. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in a fantasy land. But what bothers me about each and every Mac bug that’s uncovered is how trusting the majority of Mac users are in the fact that Apple will be able to protect them against all future threats through the existing software update mechanism that is in place. "
Just like I've been saying. But it's not the mac nerds that are in trouble (they can protect themselves if needs be), but the rest who are tricked into this false sense of security.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 25 2007 | apple, iphone, security, mobiles
"Oops, researchers just unveiled a pretty serious security vulnerability in the iPhone.Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have used the vulnerability to take malicious control of the iPhone from rogue websites loaded with the exploit. Once in, researchers have full administrative access over the phone allowing them to listen in on room audio or snatch the SMS log, address book, call history, email passwords and more -- we're talking full access to your phone."
Wow, did Apple rush the iPhone a bit too much?
ShareViewed: 1 Time - samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 21 2007 | iphone, apple, security, mobiles
"Attackers could exploit a bug in this feature to trick a victim into making phone calls to expensive "900" numbers or even keep track of phone calls made by the victim over the Web, said Billy Hoffman, lead researcher with SPI Labs. The iPhone could even be stopped from dialing out, or set to dial out endlessly, he said. "Because this vulnerability can be launched from Web sites, everybody who has an iPhone has the potential to get exploited," Hoffman said."
Apple couldn't have overlooked such a simple thing, could they? Check out the comment - not sure if it works, but iif it does it's a big problem. Even WM warns you before it dials numbers from other apps.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2007 | apple, mac osx, security
"So you and your friends have a wild party and you wake up in the morning to realize someone has changed the admin password on your beloved mac and you can no longer access your computer. No problem, you can just pop in the OS X DVD that came with your computer and reset the password....but wait, that's missing too."
Wow, it's actually surprisingly easy. I'd hazard a guess that it's easier than on a PC. Ok, so you could encrypt your stuff, but who does that? Gonna keep this trick in my book :)
ShareViewed: 18 Times - samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2007 | security, microsoft, apple
"The security researcher who uncovered a QuickTime flaw involving Java feels that Windows Vista is actually more secure than Mac OS X, and offers some practical advice for how Mac users can prevent problems."
Vista's more secure than OSX? Published on Macworld? Wow, isn't this great fuel for the great OSX v Vista debate. We all know Mac fanboys won't admit defeat...ever.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - May 01 2007 | apple, security, Mac OSX
"The solution is based on a USB Flash drive that can be inserted into a suspect's Mac OS X computer that is running (or sleeping). Once the software is run it will extract data from the Apple Keychain and system settings in order to provide the examiner fast access to the suspect's critical information with as little interaction or trace as possible."
Guess Mac OSX wasn't so secure after all eh? Although it does rely on the default security settings (which most people would have it on) and you do have to open up the app manually.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2007 | apple, security, mac osx
""Currently, every copy of OS X out there now is vulnerable to this," said Sean Comeau, one of the organizers of CanSecWest. The conference organizers decided to offer the contest in part to draw attention to possible security shortcomings in Macs. "You see a lot of people running OS X saying it's so secure, and frankly, Microsoft is putting more work into security than Apple has," said Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of security conferences including CanSecWest."
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