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A hacking tool gets updated for the Mac
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:13:11 -0600 (CST)
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031909-a-hacking-tool-gets-updated.html By Robert McMillan IDG News Service 03/19/2009 Two well-known Mac hackers are updating a widely used hacking toolkit, making it easier to take control of a Macintosh computer. Over the past few days, the researchers have been quietly adding new software to the Metasploit toolkit, used by security researchers and criminals alike. Metasploit already supported Mac attacks, but until recently the Mac code hadn't been as good as Metasploit's Windows and Linux tools, said Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security researcher who talked about the new tools with his collaborator Charlie Miller at the CanSecWest conference Friday. "Our goal was to make Mac OS X a first-class target for Metasploit." Metasploit is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy for hackers to launch a barrage of attacks against a computer system. Miller and Dai Zovi earned fame in previous years for hacking Macintosh computers at CanSecWest's annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Wednesday, Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, won US$5,000 and a Mac laptop by using a previously unknown Safari vulnerability to hack into a Mac system. The hack was done before contest organizers. In an interview, Miller said he had hoped to demonstrate it before an audience at CanSecWest, but was prevented from doing so because of Pwn2Own contest rules, which prohibit public discussion of bugs exploited in the contest. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/
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