Spreading security awareness for OS X

Spreading security awareness for OS X
Robert Lemos, 2006-02-27

Robert Lemos interviews Kevin Finisterre, founder of security startup Digital Munition, who created the three recent versions of the InqTana worm to raise awareness of security in Apple's OS X. Finisterre discusses his reasons for creating the worms, the problems with Mac OS X security, and why he does not fear prosecution.

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Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-02-28
RLD

Thank you both for such a concise and informed article. Not overly technical and understandable by the majority of people that use Mac....

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Symantec's OS X campaign has begun 2006-03-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

The article basically says, "Hi. I wrote a virus. Go, and buy antivirus. Symantec is good." All this on a website which is owned by Symantec.

As my friend put it, if the hackers don't make viruses for a platform, some corporation does.
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Re: Symantec's OS X campaign has begun 2007-01-07
Anonymous

Fanboys fanboys
Watcha gonna go
When they come for u
Fanboys fanboys...

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Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-03-03
Anonymous

lol Okay. The guy makes basically a rootkit and everyone calls it a virus or worm.

First of all, for this to get executed, it would require significant assistance from the end user.

Second of all, the writer states that worms in the future would be able to get installed without prompts. Can ...

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Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-03-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Who is this guy? He can't make up his mind! First he states he likes apple hardware and does not care for the OS, then in the next paragraph he states overall there are some things he likes about the OS. Why even interview this guy? Only using a mac since 2001? Only been in IT since '98 and at a LOW...

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Re: Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-03-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

where did you get that he has never been in an enterprise? How can you attack someone for responding to the questions they were asked? So what he does not like the OS... that does not imply that there aren't somethings that are appealing about it in general. Go take your negative comments elsewhere....

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Re: Re: Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-03-17
Anonymous (1 replies)

Personally I'd like to see him prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No matter what his motives, there are consequences - and he needs to take responsibility for those consequences. There are other ways to handle security flaws that are discovered - and reputable researchers know what those me...

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Re: Re: Re: Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-05-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

what exactly are you going to prosecute him for? Nothing was ever released into the wild. Are you going to jail all researchers that develop things a lab setting? Quick... jail all scientists that are researching botulinum in a lab environment. Absolutely absurd!...

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-06-29
Captain Kirk from Wheaton (1 replies)

I personally know Kevin and have worked with him in the past. He is THE best UNIX support guy I know hands down. He's very credible and has the utmost morals. I wouldn?t hesitate giving him full admin rights to any of my company?s computers and servers (over 75 systems)....

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Spreading security awareness for OS X 2007-01-24
Anonymous

oooooooooo 7 systems what a large installation

try over 1,500 and counting on the Mac side

over 3,000 Windows based systems

over 2,000 Linux systems

Cost for spyware and virus erradication on the Mac $0 on Windows ovver $95,000 in the first 6 months of 2006

Cost on Linux is still eb...

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