OS-X not as secure as you think
Saturday, March 25th, 2006You install applications on OS-X, right? Some of those applications, particularly script languages, can be hacked.
Shadowserver founder Nicholas Albright said he and his crew have found at least 20 variants of the same Perl script that can be used to open back doors on OS X systems running vulnerable Web applications. He also pointed to research on the apparent success of “Kaiten,” an old worm with new tricks that takes advantage of PHP security flaws present in a variety of blogging software and Web applications — including PostNuke, Drupal, b2Evolution, Xoops, WordPress, PHPGroupWare and TikiWiki.
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- Digital attacks on OS-X systems