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

[Javier Blanque <javier () blanque com ar>]

See the threads below and follow the links within it.

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/pen-test/ 
2005-04/0024.html
http://www.networksecurityarchive.org/html/Security-Basics/2005-04/ 
msg00056.html
http://lists.virus.org/pen-test-0504/msg00021.html

Best regards,
Javier Blanque

El 08/05/2006, a las 21:06, Simon escribió:

> 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