http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11375
At the recent ShmooCon hacking conference, one security researcher found
out the hard way that such venues can be hostile, when an unknown hacker
took control of the researcher's computer, disabling the firewall and
starting up a file server.
" This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit. The OS X platform
may be based on a Unix platform, but Apple seems to be making mistakes that
Unix made, and corrected, long ago. " Jay Beale, senior security
consultant, Intelguardians
While such compromises have become common in the Windows world, this time
the computer was a Apple PowerBook running the latest version of Mac OS X.
The victim, a security researcher who asked to remain anonymous, had locked
down the system prior to the conference and believes that a previously
unknown exploit caused the compromise. However, in the following weeks,
forensics performed on the system did not reveal any clues as to how the
PowerBook had been compromised.
Ing. Pablo Roufogalis L.
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