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New Mac OS X Exploit?

by Erica Sadun (Nov 21st, 2006)

The UK's IT Week reports on a possible new Mac OS X exploit. A proof of concept appears on the Info-pull.com website, claiming that corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures are vulnerable to denial of service attacks. If true, this same issue may affect FreeBSD installations. The article suggests ...

Another Look at Mac OS X Security

by Damien Barrett (Mar 7th, 2006)

I take security exploits seriously. I'm responsible for many hundreds of Macintosh computers that reside in many different environments, not to mention half-a-dozen X-Serves, several of which are production boxes open to the world. When a security exploit is announced, I look to see if it will ...