The MacOS is easily hacked
Now before everyone jumps up and down READ this whole article.
ZDNet reports that on Feb. 22, a Swedish Mac user started a contest he called “rm-my-mac,” which challenged others to break into his Mac mini and gain root administrative control of it. A contestant known as “gwerdna” hacked the computer in 30 minutes and placed this message on the contest’s Web page: “Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced.”
He went on to say gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings,” by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
That is enough to scare you, Right?
However, the Mac user who initiated the contest gave anyone who asked for it a user name and password to the computer, giving them local access to the file system. Which made life MUCH easier for this hacker.
It this the beginning of the end for the security of MacOSX, or like any other operating system, it has security deficiencies but still is a very secure operating system?
