Re: OT Hackfesting: Mac Security

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Macintosh with OSX 10.5 is a fine distro, incorporating many of the same
> Nix-ian tools used by Linux. Built upon a BSD variant, (BSDi, FreeBSD,
> NetBSD), OSX runs OpenSSH, SAINT, uses sudo, and ettercap, snort, xnu
> (mac address spoofing) and it also has some real security issues, WAIT,
> that's not a bug, it's a feature?
>
> A great many trojans are available with many personal and unusual slants
> on the age old virus themes:
>
> http://www.securemac.com/
>
> Once again we find people attempting to indulge in apples/oranges biased
> thinking comparing one distro's security to another.
>
> http://pcworld.about.com/news/May232005id120964.htm
>
> But just like with Linux, if you are running a Mac OSX on a shared
> network, you are begging to be pwned. If you surf without trust based
> controls for Javascript/Java, and use Mail without low level virus
> controls, you have the intelligence of a ten year old (before the brain
> can understand and equate risk and consequences).
>
> Symantec is one of the best tools; but great many exist (use the Source
> young Jedi).
>
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>
>

What do you mean by "shared network"? Isn't any network, well, shared?

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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