Helpful Mac OS X worms?

By Robert Vamosi on 06 March 2006

By creating three proof-of-concept worms last week, Kevin Finisterre started a public dialog over Mac OS X security. But he also opened a Pandora's box, giving script kiddies techniques that could be used in future Mac OS X viruses.

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  • KF commented on 06/03/2006 16:50

    I would like to state that I do work cooperatively with Apple and I would like to think that I help them understand the issues that I disclose. It would be wrong of one to think that Apple hasn't read my paper. I would hope that they too learned from it. I would not be surprised if we don't see some changes to the OS to counter concepts in my paper.

    Also to say that Apple did not respond is not entirely correct. Apple did not respond to the initial query during the first media flare. I have talked with Apple several times since then.
    -KF

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