Unbending the Truth: Things Microsoft Hopes You Won't Notice

[TransformX]

Unbending the Truth: Things Microsoft Hopes You Won't Notice

[dbdg]

More secure system

Nice to see an OsX worm as well.

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by dbdg
More secure system

This DDOS attack is only possible with firewall logging enabled. And it can only crash a remote attacked machine.

Originally posted by dbdg
Nice to see an OsX worm as well.

The Renepo (worm) is just a shell script, a user has to enable it via the admin/root password before it could do any harm. It exploits a users good faith rather than a system vulnerability
It's also unable to spread itself via email etc.

Windows, Linux, Mac, … are all vulnerable to this type of attack.

[dbdg]

That's my point, nearly all vulnerabilites are obscure, no matter what platform, market share just dictates how hard people look for them.

I think it was Gurm that said wait till OsX or *nix have a decent market share, the number of publicised worms/virus/exploits (in the non IT press) worms/virus/exploits would be insane.

[Wombat]

dbdg,
That's not a worm. If it is, then me telling you 'format c:' is a worm.

[dbdg]

I'm not saying it is a worm, I'm just linking to the press article that said that it was.

// of to format c:

[The PIT]

Security is only as good as the end user. Give the average user access to the root password and they'll happily give it away with a little bit of social engineering.