[iBook] Mac OS X hacked in less than 30 minutes

[Scott Warren]

Now lets not get into the "why would anyone hack me, there is nothing  
on here they would want" line of thought.  Lots of hacked windoze  
machines are just drones for spam and other hacks, virus, or  
exploits.  Someone gets into root on your box and get some evil  
running that sends out spam or other viruses and our "Ivory tower"  
macs are brought down a notch or 2.  Ever notice how the activity  
monitor is getting as cluttered as the process viewer on the windoze  
machines?
I think Macs will lose a couple of points ontheir "market share  
cloak" with all the intel hype (and discounted ppc machines) giving  
some hacker a chance to make a name for themselves.

-- Scott

- Why does my firewall say "PC Load Letter"? -


On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Jim Manley wrote:

> There isn't any such as a perfect ivory tower.
>
> I do think that most of us don't have top secret data that some  
> hacker would go through all the trouble to get at. I always have my  
> firewall on as far as that goes. Also, if you have a router then  
> you have a hardware firewall.
> ---
> James Paul Manley
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> On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Jean-Paul Thuot wrote:
>
>> You mean our ivory tower isn't safe after all?
>>
>> I wonder if your basic end-user Mac connected to the net with it's
>> firewall up and non-essential services turned off would be as
>> vulnerable though.  This was a server that the crackers had local  
>> user
>> access to, which I think is a bit different from what most of us are
>> doing with our Macs.
>
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