, SecurityFocus 2005-11-29
When the SANS Institute, a computer-security training organization, released its Top-20 vulnerabilities last week, the rankings continued an annual ritual aimed at highlighting the worst flaws for network administrators. This year, the list had something different, however: The group flagged the collective vulnerabilities in Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system as a major threat.
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Show me a worm for OSX that doesn't rely on social engineering and I'll start getting worried.
Yes, I'm aware that there have been remotely rootable exploits for OSX. Thing is, they tend to get fixed. How long has the recently publicised explorer javascript hole been known about and acknowledged by MS?
No OS is 100% secure, and yes, complacency is a very real and present danger. But OSX is an awful lot more secure than some of the other options, and its users are no more complacent than the millions still using explorer...
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