A Mac gets whacked, a second survives

A Mac gets whacked, a second survives
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-04-21

Vancouver, CANADA -- Shane Macaulay strode into the conference hall at the CanSecWest conference on Friday afternoon, balancing a MacBook Pro on his palm and making a beeline for the table displaying two more of the silver laptops.

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So if I use Firefox? 2007-04-23
Anonymous (1 replies)

So does this mean that if I use Firefox instead of Safari and don't visit porn, hacker, warez, or other questionable sites then I don't have to worry too much about this exploit affecting my Mac?

And since approximately 60% or more of the "Security Researchers" attending CanSecWest were using Mac...

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Re: So if I use Firefox? 2007-04-23
Robert Lemos

Actually, Dai Zovi later clarified that the vulnerability appears to be in the Java support in Mac OS X, which would mean that it would also affect Firefox users.

Since the claims of security researchers overwhelmingly using Macs has come up before, I did a few unscientific counts of the number o...

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A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2007-04-23
Anonymous (2 replies)

If it was so real why did they have to lower the security settings to actually break in? And if it is java then it is more a SUN issue and not OSX or specific to OSX since it effects Firefox and possibly others....

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Re: A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2007-04-23
Robert Lemos

As explained in the article, while the exploit requires some user interaction (just clicking on a Web link) that's a standard method of attack seen often on the Windows platform. Thus, it was considered a valid attack.

As for the Java angle, I did some research into that today and Dai Zovi expand...

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Re: A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2007-04-25
Oofus Funnybutt III (1 replies)

This is laughable to see the appleheads try to look for an angle on how it's not an Apple problem. It's not an Apple issue, it's a Sun issue if it's in Java... Yea, that's the ticket!

I suppose it's not a RedHat issue if it's in the Linux kernel. Oh wait, maybe it's not really the linux kernel...

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Re: Re: A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2009-08-02
Anonymous

Wow, what a really informative comment....

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