, 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
2006-03-06
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2006-06-29
Captain Kirk from Wheaton (1 replies)
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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 you name any Mac OS X program installed into any directory that isn't prompted by the OS?
Call this what it is, not what you wish it was.
Mac OS X is more secure than Linux and vastly more secure than Windows. This is not because of obscurity. Mac and Apple are pretty well known and a virus writer who could disable a lot of macs would get a lot of prestige as having been the first. Not to mention that most elite hackers are unix geeks, not windows noobs.
It's been 5 years. No one has made a virus that could spread from one mac to another without significant user intervention.
You might as well call the victim up, pretending to be Apple and tell them to go into Terminal and start typing commands for their own protection. Wow, look I'm a virus! Weeeeee!
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