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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.

2 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why keep SSH on? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is true, but you still have to have sshd running for that to be useful...

  2. Re:This was of very little worth by tweakt · · Score: 0, Redundant
    3) Try to hack it from the Internet, without knowing its IP address.

    That's just plain retarded.

    Does this make any sense?

    1. Buy a new house.
    2. Install top of the line security system.
    3. Break into it from outside without knowing the address.

    People... hiding your IP address is NOT SECURITY. Quit treating it as some sort of security issue. If your machine is secure, knowing it's address is of little use. Sure anonymity helps, and keeping a low profile is good, but they are not functions of a secure system. It is a required peice of information in order to participate in the internet.

    Cracks me up like the banners that pop up exclaiming "Warning! Your computer is broadcasting an IP Address!".

    *chuckle*

    PS: captcha was "gobbles". Remember him? I wonder where he's gone these days...