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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.

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Re: Apple's in the eye of flaw finders 2006-02-08
Rick
Of course it's something to worry about. Security pros get paid to worry.

It takes one of three puzzle pieces out of the equation. Those three pieces are:

#1) find some dumb code someone in Redmond wrote so you can crash the stack;

#2) put in some cookie cutter shell code so you take over the...

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