Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
Apple's in the eye of flaw finders
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-02-07

At the recent ShmooCon hacking conference, one security researcher found out the hard way that such venues can be hostile, when an unknown hacker took control of the researcher's computer, disabling the firewall and starting up a file server.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 
do we want security through obscurity? 2006-02-08
assurbanipal
Everybody argues that security through obscurity doesn't provide additional protection. Yet this article seems to point to the contrary, i.e. the shift to a better known platform will "prove" dangerous because more people know how to fiddle with it. This is probably what happens, but reflects market...

[ more ]  




 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus