RE: Macintosh OS X Vulnerabilities (anyone out there?)

["Roger A. Grimes" <roger () banneretcs com>]

My favorite list is at www.secunia.com. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harrison Holland [mailto:harrisonholland () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:51 PM
To: Simon
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Macintosh OS X Vulnerabilities (anyone out there?)

Occasionally on the bugtraq mailing list you'll see OSX vulnerabilities
go out.  Check some known vuln resources online like security focus,
milw0rm, exploit tree, or something similar.

Harrison

On 5/8/06, Simon <simon.xhz () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>   first I have to apologize for this "request" I'm sending out to this

> list.  At least, I believe security-basics Is the place to ask this.
>
>   I'm a linux user, know more about PCs, linux and windows, and much 
> less about Macintoshes.  However, I have a friend here that is a 
> Mac-sold-soul, like I hope Mac is the good side or this guy would be 
> the devil's acolyte!
>
>   By experience, I would say that Macs are safer than linux or windows

> (and OF COURSE, I'm talking about a civilian, the kind that doesn't 
> really take responsibilty in his PC, that wishes that his OS is good 
> and will not run into trouble... you know the guy!).
>
>   MY QUESTION to the security aware community is this one:
> There must exist vulnerabilities, known, unknown, fixed, discussed or 
> researched.  Possibly there is a place where all of these are 
> clustered, a learning place where we can start and see that MacOS X is

> just another OS pretending to be better, and... succeeding for these 
> days (and hopefully, that will succeed for still long).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>   Simon and Francois