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drucer
March 7th, 2006, 07:12 PM
Oh well, it looks like each and every one of us needs to do everything we can do to improve computer security. Out of the box solutions will just not do it for us.

http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Mac_OS_X_hacked_in_less_than_30_minutes/0,2000061744,39241748,00.htm
http://rm-my-mac.wideopenbsd.org/
rfruth
March 7th, 2006, 07:21 PM
Someone at U of W http://test.doit.wisc.edu/
calles the ZD article you link to "woefully misleading" but I agree we all need to scan for viruses, have a firewall etc ...
Bandit
March 7th, 2006, 07:22 PM
Took 30 minutes.. Wow, this dude is slow..
kaamos
March 7th, 2006, 07:25 PM
Hopefully all the articles remember to mention that everyone was give a shell account on the system..
Bandit
March 7th, 2006, 07:35 PM
Hopefully all the articles remember to mention that everyone was give a shell account on the system..
Thats why I was amazed it took 30 minutes...
If it was behind a firewall and not givin any account access. Then it would have been a whole diferent ball of wax...
WelterPelter
March 7th, 2006, 07:42 PM
They had ssh access. This was too easy.
engla
March 7th, 2006, 07:42 PM
Thats why I was amazed it took 30 minutes...
If it was behind a firewall and not givin any account access. Then it would have been a whole diferent ball of wax...
So tell me, what would you do / what could you do if I let you in via ssh on my ubuntu breezy box?
WelterPelter
March 7th, 2006, 07:50 PM
So tell me, what would you do / what could you do if I let you in via ssh on my ubuntu breezy box?

Steal your porn. And music. ;)
Sirin
March 7th, 2006, 07:54 PM
Seesh. I have already done the same thing with Ubuntu in less than 4. This guy is a joke. :rolleyes:
Bandit
March 7th, 2006, 07:55 PM
So tell me, what would you do / what could you do if I let you in via ssh on my ubuntu breezy box?
Haha.. Cute..
But I dont think it would be proper to comment about your system when I have never loged onto it before. Mind you I am no god, please dont think I am refering to my self as some kind of guru. I am not, I was however asst security manager at the last ISP I worked for before joining the military 6 years ago. Getting into THEIR system is what got me my job.
YourSurrogateGod
March 7th, 2006, 10:24 PM
-snip-

"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," added gwerdna.

-snip-
Bingo.