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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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Forensices did not reveal any clues? 2006-02-08
Anonymous
Did the forensics not reveal ANY clues? The article doesn't give any clues either. Were any services available allowed through the firewall? Was automatic login enabled? Was the system rebooted? (Which would trivially allow access without FileVault enabled.) Without any more details, the article is ...

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