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Mac OS X Security Competition Ends in 30 Minutes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-secure-is-secure dept.

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.

3 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I challenge you to hack me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Sucker, thats my address!
    Please ignore this address and let me life.

  2. Re:Security in small numbers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot's editorial quality is rapidly fading. "Mac OS X Security Competition Ends in 30 Minutes" is one of the worst headlines I've seen on a site with this large a regular readership. This heading suggests the contest is still going on. I've seen numerous errors of the sort recently with unclear or irrelevent descriptions of articles, biased and bizarre pieces, and simply nonsensical headlines. The blurb even uses a clearer wording saying the competition ended "after" 30 minutes.

    Will someone around here start paying attention and maintain a certain level of quality and rudimentary comprehensibility.

    This is rediculous.

  3. Here's one for you... by meringuoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    127.5.240.96

    Come and get it, kids...

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    Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.