Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

[David Auclair <d.auclair () UTORONTO CA>]

The recent pwn2own contest results are particularly interesting.  The mac was pwned in seconds.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2917

Or the recent Mac Botnet:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157


Macs are starting to be more of a target.


Regards,
David Auclair
Computer Security Administration
Computing and Networking Services
University of Toronto


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Joel 
Rosenblatt
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:20 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

Only if you believe everything you see on TV :-)

We are seeing Mac's sending spam, scanning, etc.  ... all of the things that you see in a good Windows box.

My 2 cents.

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Monday, May 04, 2009 1:03 PM -0400 Caroline Couture <caroline () POBOX UPENN EDU> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I thought that the general thinking was to have anti-virus on the Mac to prevent it from being a transmission vector 
> for things like macro viruses, I can see
> tripwire helping with compromises of Darwin.
> Is that no longer the thinking?
>
> Caroline
>
> Caroline Couture
> College House Computing
> 3702 Spruce Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the 
> discipline to confront the most brutal facts
> of your current reality, whatever they might be. -- Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel