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Worm Claimed For Apple OS X
SkiifGeek writes "Controversy is slowly building over the development of a claimed new worm that targets OS X systems, dubbed by its inventor Rape.osx. Using a currently undisclosed vulnerability in mDNSResponder, the worm is said to give access to root as it spreads across the local network. As with a number of recent Apple-related security discoveries, the author, InfoSec Sellout, is delaying reporting the vulnerability to Apple until after completing full testing of the worm. While the worm has yet to leave a testing environment (with 1,500 OS X systems), it is bound to join the likes of Inqtana and Leap as known OS X malware."
It seems to me that the vulnerabilities in OSX will keep increasing as they keep layering stuff over their BSD core. It seems to me their kernel and lower level stuff is widely tested and secure, since you can see most of its source. However, software that they keep pushing out to improve OSX will probably be just as vulnerable as any of Microsoft's stuff.
Disclaimer: Disregard the above post.
Maybe because there was only 3 people looking for Mac vulnerabilities?
And each of them found one.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Where on earth will those dweebs find 1500 Macs on the same subnet to test this on?
Right.
How many times does this have to happen before someone gets the message?
CLOSED-SOURCE SOFTWARE IS THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE MALWARE PROBLEM.
Open up the source code. Let the bad guys read it. Because at least that way, the good guys get to read it too -- and there are more good guys than bad guys.
On a tangent, what's the betting that if Apple sold chastity belts, Steve Jobs would have a master key that fit them all? And that customers would claim to like it that way?
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
That's funny. An Apple hater pretends to be an Apple fanboy. Some other Apple hater is so oblivious of reality, and thinks Mac users are sto stupid and will say absolutely anything, that he thinks person 1 actually is a fanboy (and seemingly even takes person 1 as a reason to increase his own hate).
I think this is how Apple hating usually works, actually. Since it's hard to actually find a real-life crazy Mac user who pretends that Mac OS X is completely secure and that every bad thing happening to Apple is actually good, you just have to make up such a person to justify your Apple hating.