Mac Os X hacked ... and a new challenge

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Well, it has happened again by a hacker in Australia. Read about it here:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6046197.html?tag=nl.e589

It seems the last patch was not complete …

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6046588.html?tag=nl.e622

Here is the new challenge:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6047038.html?tag=nl.e622

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And the challenge is over … a sort of anti-climax :

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6047735.html?tag=nl.e622

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It would be interesting to see how long it would take to hack a XP box with only the built in firewall enabled (no extra security software not even Antivirus) I bet it would take less than 5 minutes for some of the hackers out there. No OS is perfect but Linux and mac os x are ahead in security thats for sure

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Hello Mac,

I don’t know if you know this (but now you do) OS X is based of Linux code so some Linux apps will run on OS X if you try it.

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justin, actually Mac OS X is based on UNIX ot Linux