__/ [ GreyCloud ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:25 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 03:17 \__
>>
>>
>>>__/ [ GreyCloud ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:21 \__
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sinister Midget wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On 2006-03-07, GreyCloud <mist@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6046588.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>| "An Apple Computer patch released last week doesn't completely fix a
>>>>>>>| high-profile Mac OS X flaw, leaving a toehold for cyberattacks,
>>>>>>>| experts said."
>>>>>>>`----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This is one among a long series of articles, which have hit the news
>>>>>>>in the past fortnight. It carried on ever since that Safari execution
>>>>>>>vulnerability.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6046197.html?part=rss&tag=6046197&subj=news
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an
>>>>>>individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root
>>>>>>control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This has to be a hoax. Oxxie Moron would have told us about this major
>>>>>advance on the Apphole platform.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I wish it were a hoax too, but like Mitnik says, those few that have an
>>>>unpublished or unkown to anybody else exploit are dangerous.
>>>>Oxturd would tell us that it just isn't so. :-))
>>>
>>>Oxford is the one I had in mind when posting this...
>>
>>
>> Breaking news:
>>
>>
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6047038.html?part=rss&tag=6047038&subj=news
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "A university systems engineer in Wisconsin is inviting hackers
>> | to break into his Mac.
>> |
>> | Dave Schroeder, a senior systems engineer at the University of
>> | Wisconsin, launched his contest on Monday. An earlier challenge was too
>> | easy, he said."
>> `----
>>
>
> I'll be watching the news tomorrow to see how things went.
> An interesting challenge. Reminds me of the challenge done on a VMS
> system in Las Vegas... no one was able to hack the system, even with
> user accounts.
MS to top up the prize with a $1bn. OSDL and Apple to handcuff the crackers
and demand a $1 ransom.
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