This just in since there's a Mac thread going....
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
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Subject: A new era of Mac hacks?
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Mac OS memory flaws pose challenges for enterprise endpoint
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At the recent Source Boston security conference, researcher Dino Dai Zovi
shared a presentation on the hackability of Mac OS X that's caused quite a stir.
According to Dai Zovi, a noted author and Mac security expert, easy access to
the root memory in Apple Inc.'s operating system makes it trivial for malicious
attackers to take over a Mac system, establish a TCP connection and download
additional malicious code.
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