RE: Apple pentesting

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

 Hey, Thanks guys,

It was my mistake...I was talking in front of my mind for a bit. Yesterday was a rough day, sorry for the confusion. 
Cory, sorry for taking my displeasure of the day out on ya..my bad. I understand that Apple has a very good security 
image and does inform their users. 

As far as pen-testing, Nessus is a good start, but false positives are possible and they should be double checked with 
another tool or manually. You will get both Mac OS X and UNIX type vulns. The other links provided by the other members 
give some holes to check. I was surprised to not find any attack info on packetstormsecurity as well.

http://www.osvdb.org/ - Found several vulns for Mac OS X

http://secunia.com/product/96/ - Mac OS X Vulnerabilities - Secunia

Also, look at the other apps that are installed. If you do get local access to the box, then installed apps and maybe 
unpatched local access will help you gain higher access.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Blanque [mailto:javier () blanque com ar] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:40 PM
> To: Todd Towles; Julian Totzek
> Cc: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
> Subject: Re: Apple pentesting
>
> In general Corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, 
> etc. do not help attackers to their products, even for good 
> reason (pen testing), they do not give more than is needed to 
> know about a bug. But Apple has been doing its homework about 
> patching and describing these vulns. You should check at:
> http://www.macsecurity.org/
> http://www.securemac.com/
> and google for "mac security"
> Best regards,
> Javier Blanque
>
> El 05/04/2005, a las 14:47, Todd Towles escribió:
>
> > Nessus does work against Macs, the problem with testing 
> Macs is they 
> > never released vulnerability statements..never. If a hole is found, 
> > Apple releases a patch and no ones says anything. If Microsoft did 
> > this..everyone would go crazy.