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OS X hacking challenge called off
News A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the The Mac OS X 'challenge' was not an activity authorised by the The Mac OS X contest ended without a negative impact on the In the earlier challenge, an anonymous hacker claimed he...
[March 9, 2006, 8:35]
Security flaw hits Windows, Mac, Linux
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow...
[August 7, 2002, 11:54]
Apple fixes downloads vulnerability
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. Apple has released a patch for a glaring security hole in its software update system...
[July 16, 2002, 10:23]
Security flaw found in Microsoft Office for Mac
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. The flaw affects all Office programs but is only considered a critical issue on Internet...
[April 17, 2002, 8:50]
skiTunes
Downloads Using native widgets will allow it to automatically match the rest of the OS when a theme is applied, unlike iTunes, which requires hacking in order to make it match. It's target platform is Mac OS X 10.3 and later, however it may run on Mac...
[April 15, 2005, 8:00]
Google Hacks: Build a Google Screensaver
White Papers Along with desktop backgrounds, screensavers have always been a feature of personal computers that people feel comfortable changing, tweaking, fiddling with, and hacking for fun. This paper relies on the screensavers that ship with Windows XP and...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
iConquer Plug-in Kit
Downloads Use your artificial intelligence hacking ability to make the next great player algorithm. To create player plug-ins, you'll need a basic understanding of developing Cocoa software for Mac OS X in Objective-C.
[October 15, 2009, 14:56]
Hacker cracks Apple downloads
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. According to hacker Russell Harding, who claims to have discovered the exploit, the Mac OS...
[July 8, 2002, 16:27]
Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security
News 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.
[March 7, 2006, 9:00]
Apple attacked over flaw notifications
News We told them that if you are not able to execute code, then talk to us, so we can show you the issues," said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at eEye. Five vulnerabilities released on Monday affect various components of the Mac OS X operating...
[May 5, 2004, 8:50]
The pros and cons of iPhone security
News Mehta thinks the iPhone will attract a more sophisticated criminal who's attracted to the challenge of hacking a complex system. Speaking of flaws, there have been a few exploits developed recently for Mac OS X vulnerabilities.
[June 29, 2007, 14:23]
Fresh Mac hacking competition launched
News Earlier on Tuesday, Schroeder said that most of the hacking attempts were from scripts and tools attempting to use common Web exploits, dictionary attacks against SSH, port scans and scans by security tools such as Nessus.
[March 8, 2006, 8:50]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
News Apple has criticised the move as akin to hacking and warned that it could always break Real's approach in the next software update to the iPod. Apple expects to capitalise $5m (£2.7m)worth of research and development costs related to its...
[August 6, 2004, 9:05]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
News Linux advocates often take pride in the operating system being more secure than Windows but this claim may have attracted unwanted attention from the hacking community. According to the study, the most secure OS turned out to be BSD (Berkley...
[February 20, 2004, 10:30]
Vista, Leopard and Linux to compete in hack contest
News The hacking competition at CanSecWest 2008 will pit the Linux, Leopard OS X and Vista operating systems against each other, according to CanSecWest organiser Dragos Ruiu. Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows, and Linux operating systems are to be pitted...
[February 7, 2008, 13:23]
Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims
News Symantec has sparked outrage by claiming on Monday that the operating system OS X was set to come under increased hacking and malware attacks. In an emailed response, a Symantec spokesperson wrote: "We've found that one of the recent emerging...
[March 22, 2005, 13:55]
Researcher: 'Macs as easy to hack as to use'
News During his presentation, "Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest Mac OS X", at the recent Black Hat conference, Miller said that, for some reason, the Mac OS has over 50-plus suid root programs.
[August 14, 2007, 11:44]
RealPlayer and QuickTime flaws could let hackers in
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. The vulnerability affected the following popular versions of its digital media players: RealOne...
[April 2, 2003, 16:06]
Linux users urged to patch file-sharing flaw
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. Apple Computer noted in an advisory that Samba is not enabled by default with Mac OS X and Mac OS X...
[March 18, 2003, 8:21]
Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security
Talkback Microsoft can't fix their own pile of shit OS, so they are trying to pull OS-X into their cesspool to make them look like shit as well. Yet another steaming triple coil by ZD and their handlers at MS.
[March 7, 2006, 19:57]
