Mac OS X Hacker challenge is over.

38 hours, nobody hacked it. Under fire from intermittent DOS attacks, nessus scans, ssh dictionary attacks and much else. The difference to the other competition? Nobody had local access to the machine except the machine’s owners, as it would be in a realistic situation. read more | digg story

BlogExplosion up for SALE

This is definitely not a typo or an early April Fool’s joke. BlogExplosion will be going up for sale next week. We will be sending out a special email early next week with full details about how we plan to sell the site. After many long discussions over the last couple of weeks we have … [Read more…]

Battle over trojan code

Mobile antivirus researchers and antivirus companies are at loggerheads over access to code for a PC-to-mobile Trojan. The Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA) said that it had received proof-of-concept code last week for Crossover, which MARA claims is malicious software that can jump from a Windows desktop machine to a Windows Mobile Pocket PC handheld. … [Read more…]

Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes

Gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings,” according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the … [Read more…]

Apple confesses

Apple UK doesn’t believe PCs are as naff as its Stateside parent company does. Don’t believe us? Just take a look at the company’s TV adverts for Intel-based Macs. In the original, US-oriented ad, Apple takes a dig at “dull” PCs, but in the version cleared for UK audiences the d-word is peculiarly absent. Compare … [Read more…]