Hey, Thanks guys,
It was my mistake...I was talking in front of my mind for a bit. Yesterday was
a rough day, sorry for the confusion. Cory, sorry for taking my displeasure of
the day out on ya..my bad. I understand that Apple has a very good security
image and does inform their users.
As far as pen-testing, Nessus is a good start, but false positives are possible
and they should be double checked with another tool or manually. You will get
both Mac OS X and UNIX type vulns. The other links provided by the other
members give some holes to check. I was surprised to not find any attack info
on packetstormsecurity as well.
http://www.osvdb.org/ - Found several vulns for Mac OS X
http://secunia.com/product/96/ - Mac OS X Vulnerabilities - Secunia
Also, look at the other apps that are installed. If you do get local access to
the box, then installed apps and maybe unpatched local access will help you
gain higher access.
-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Blanque [mailto:javier@blanque.com.ar]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:40 PM
To: Todd Towles; Julian Totzek
Cc: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Apple pentesting
In general Corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco,
etc. do not help attackers to their products, even for good
reason (pen testing), they do not give more than is needed to
know about a bug. But Apple has been doing its homework about
patching and describing these vulns. You should check at:
http://www.macsecurity.org/
http://www.securemac.com/
and google for "mac security"
Best regards,
Javier Blanque
El 05/04/2005, a las 14:47, Todd Towles escribió:
Nessus does work against Macs, the problem with testing
Macs is they
never released vulnerability statements..never. If a hole is found,
Apple releases a patch and no ones says anything. If Microsoft did
this..everyone would go crazy.
