OS X Insecurity
I stumbled across this whitepaper, written by Angelo Laub, which discusses some of the insidious things that can be done to unwitting users of Mac OS X. Laub speaks of possibilities of nefarious uses of Single-User Mode and FireWire when booting an OS X machine, disguised executables, and more. Any time you can run a Unix Terminal prompt, any determined and well-educated hacker can engineer their way unto your system.
I have oodles of faith in Apple on the notes of security. No operating system is perfect, OS X certainly isn’t, but it works well and doesn’t have the myriad of inter and intra application communication tools that make Windows far more daunting in securing. Nonetheless, the paper is worth a read, if even for educational purposes only.
