Has Apple Got A Worm Problem?
Posted by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on July 18th, 2007
SkiifGeek writes “Controversy is slowly building over the development of a claimed new worm that targets OS X systems, dubbed by its inventor Rape.osx. Using a currently undisclosed vulnerability in mDNSResponder, the worm is said to give access to root as it spreads across the local network. As with a number of recent Apple-related security discoveries, the author, InfoSec Sellout, is delaying reporting the vulnerability to Apple until after completing full testing of the worm. While the worm has yet to leave a testing environment (with 1,500 OS X systems), it is bound to join the likes of Inqtana and Leap as known OS X malware.”
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I love these kinds of articles. They always try to insinuate Macs are not as secure as people generally believe who use them, and then they fail to followup on the issue (as generally it is found out that the person claiming to have this “Mac virus” needs to exploit a vunerability created by turning on a service that is left off by default install on a Mac).. What’s the updated status of this story? It’s looking rather like this didn’t happen judging by the date.