"Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use", according to researcher Charles Miller.
The reunion of the top engineers and programmers who created the Mac has attracted the biggest audience ever to the annual developers' gathering.
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according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
Australian Federal Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth for allegedly hacking into a "prominent" Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP).
A 17 year old Queensland youth was arrested last week on charges relating to a security breach at a "prominent" internet service provider (ISP). ZDNet Australia spoke to the director of the recently established Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), federal agent Alastair MacGibbon, about the arrest, and found out why letting the world know you've been hacked isn't the end of the world.
Following a number of attacks against OS X in 2006, Mac users are finally getting the message that they are not immune, according to an IT security manager responsible for over 5,000 Apple systems.
How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.
The scalp of Mac OS X has been waved trophy-like after being hacked in controlled environments, yet security researchers are hard pressed remembering the last time a Mac was compromised in the wild.
Ruxcon, Australia's independent, non-profit security conference, has finalised a date for its 2004 event and called for the submission of papers from the security community.
Apple has released another round of security patches for its Web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which allowed a Macbook air to be hacked and two deficiencies in the Windows-only version of the software.
Security tools, features and protocols offer greater protection than ever before. But how do companies reduce the risk of hackers accessing Wi-Fi or 802.11 wireless networks?
Recently released code isn't the only place where danger lurks, ZDNet reveals old OS legacy code can also leave you open to network vulnerabilities.
IT decision makers need to understand the differences between intrusion detection and prevention so that they can determine which type of product will provide the best safeguards for their systems.
Google and other search engines are now searching for Word, Excel and other file formats, and are increasingly stumbling on sensitive information
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