Re: Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

["Stanclift, Michael" <michael.stanclift () ROCKHURST EDU>]

Even if he did work it out ahead of time, it means the problem was there. There are plenty of people out there 
motivated by a lot less than $10,000 or a free MacBook.

And people out there being paid to do more...


Michael Stanclift
Network Analyst
Rockhurst University

http://help.rockhurst.edu
(816) 501-4231


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Peters, 
Kevin
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

Not to flame anyone or try to defend Safari and the Mac, however Charlie
Miller worked out the hack way in advance and had tested it long before
entering the contest.  His objective was to win $10,000 and a MacBook,
which he did.

Kevin Peters
IT Manager
The Ohio Lottery
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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of David Auclair
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Adware/Spyware on Mac/OS X

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-----
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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Joel Rosenblatt
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:20 PM
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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