The MacOS is easily hacked
This post was published 3 years 8 months 16 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.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He went on to say gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings,” by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.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?
read more links to this page, shouldnt it go to the zdnet article?
Yeah your Read More link is brocken.
Not a real test of Mac OS X’s security at all. It’s like asking someone to steal your car when you’ve left the keys in the ignition and the door unlocked. The real test, however, has lasted over 24 hours without being hacked, so far.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8818/
I still think then when more people start using Mac’s people will start hacking them / creating viruses for them. What hacker would waste their time making a Mac virus when it would affect about 8% of all computer users.