Mac OS X Finally Hacked?
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Everyone has heard the news by now. Mac OS X has finally been hacked, or has it?
While it’s troublesome that you can apparently get root access from a non-privileged account in OS X, I would be more worried if the guy got it without the help of a non-privileged account in the first place.
Needing that means we’re back to where we were yesterday, where virtually the only way someone is getting into your Mac is if you invite them in, either intentionally or through accepting a Trojan horse.
Not to mention, the guy who set up this challenge in the first place doesn’t seem to be the world’s savviest sysadmin. The hacker claims he used “undocumented exploits” to get in, but that just sounds like tough talk to be more mysterious. He probably just used a flaw in a network service that the admin left open. A firewall (which ships preinstalled on every Mac) would probably have prevented it.
So it looks like we still have no problem with someone hacking into your Mac yet. Although,
Watch out though, I’m coming to get you with a whole book of undocumented exploits! Just create me an admin account on your machine first and close your eyes!
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