At the CanSec West conference Charlie Miller wins the PWN 2 OWN contest. I think these contest are kinda lame as they do not prove much, other than Charlie Miller was most likely sitting on a vulnerability waiting until the contest. I still think it is some what cool that there are people that are [...]
Entries Tagged as 'OS X'
Mac Hacked in 2 Minutes, Apple is a lame patcher
March 27th, 2008 ·
Tags: OS X · Security · Security Industry
How to: Enable PHP on Leopard
October 29th, 2007 ·
Finding the config file
This one took me a while but I figured out the apache config now lives in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. To enable PHP 5 you need to crack open that file as root to edit it. Using vi:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Or using Textmate
sudo mate /etc/apache2/httpd.confÂ
Enabling PHP
Find the line which loads the PHP 5 module, which looks [...]
Tags: OS X
Windows Machines are Bluescreened in Leopard
October 26th, 2007 ·
This is awesome! Browsing networks with Windows machines on them show the Windows boxes as old CRT monitors that are all blue screened. Hilarious!
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Before you Upgrade to Leopard…
October 26th, 2007 ·
Make sure you run check permissions via Disk Utility, I had one little permission off and it caused my volume to not mount when I was trying to install. The choose a volume to install screen was blank. This was concerning of course. Luckily you can run Disk Utility from the installer. I ran Fix [...]
Tags: OS X
iPhone and iPod Touch are free
October 17th, 2007 ·
Damn you Steve Jobs, now I have to have one! Jobs announced that the iPhone and the iPod touch will be open to third parties starting in February. I had been delaying getting one cause using only web apps did not seem that exciting. I want things like SSH, a VOIP client, and other things [...]
Tags: OS X
OS X Leopard security concerns
October 16th, 2007 ·
Apple announced that Leopard will be released October 26th. They also pumped out a feature list. The guys over at Securosis do a fine job running down the list of security features on tap for the new version so I won’t duplicate the fine effort shown over there. I wanted to take a look at [...]
Mr. Jobs, get serious about security!
September 26th, 2007 ·
With the release of the details behind last years mysterious wireless driver OS X exploit we can finally see what was really going on. The exploit was real and Apple decided to suppress it with an NDA ( and probably a nice crate of Apple goodies).
Disclaimer: I am a huge Mac/Apple zealot.
It is interesting that [...]
