Mac OS X Security Competition Ends in 30 Minutes

ninja_assault_kitten writes "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.

Comments

Think about your ridiculous statement a little.

[Some Random Username]

You are saying that providing web hosting means you should expect to be rooted all the time? People need to have unpriviledged user accounts. That should never mean they can root the system. OSX is insecure, and cannot be used as a server because of this. Its nothing at all like physical access, which gives you the ability to bypass the OS altogether. This is just a case of the OS being broken, plain and simple.

Oops!

[flyinwhitey]

"admin"

You misspelled fanboy.