Black Hat security conference offers two-day Macsploitation class

Attention would-be Mac hackers and those hoping to write viruses and malware for Mac OS X! You can bone up on your Macsploitation skills at an upcoming two-day class to be held at the Black Hat security conference July 30 through August 2.
This isn't the first time that Black Hat has featured Mac hacker training. The class, which will be taught by Italian security consultant Vincenzo Iozzo and Mac Hacker's Handbook author Dino Dai Zovi, requires registration ($2000 now, $2700 onsite) and has a number of other prerequisites as well. What kind? Well, in addition to bringing your Mac along to the site, you'll want to make sure you have a Windows XP virtual machine running on the Mac, the IDA Pro disassembler and Apple's Xcode tools package. If you want to impress the instructors, you'll also want to grab zynamics' BinNavi reverse-engineering tool.
For the most part, the people who attend Black Hat are good guys who are there to learn how to keep our systems safe. As noted on ZDNet, Mac OS X security remains much better than that of Windows. Mac OS X 10.6.6 only included one security fix, while Microsoft's February Patch (released last Tuesday) plugged 22 vulnerabilities.
If your work involves Mac security, there's no better place to pick up the skills that you need to be an expert than at Black Hat.
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Attention would-be Mac hackers and those hoping to write viruses and malware for Mac OS X! You can bone up on your Macsploitation...
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Dan,
Not a security guy, huh?
"Mac OS X 10.6.6 only included one security fix, while Microsoft's February Patch (released last Tuesday) plugged 22 vulnerabilities."
Please don't do this - it's annoying, and it's usually trotted out by the MS shills to insist that other operating systems are "less secure" because they have more patches.
Counting doesn't really make sense here anyways - 20 bugs in obscure services most people don't run (that can only be exploited locally) is in NO sense "worse" than one bug that pwns your machine if you look at a web page.
"As noted on ZDNet, Mac OS X security remains much better than that of Windows."
It's also a lot darker outside at night than during the day.
I'd like to see your sources that back that statement up.
March 08 2011 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCorrect me if I'm wrong, but a White Hat is someone who attempts to access your system to keep your system safe, through Pen-Testing and exposing security holes.
A Black Hat is someone who attempts to access your system for more nefarious purposes.
At the very least, it's a poor choice of title for the conference, it could even be called "false advertising".
It's where you go to "play" a Black Hat hacker.
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