According to TechNewsWorld, “Malwarebytes has discovered a new zero day exploit in OS X that lets apps bypass passwords during installation to get root permission through a Unix shell.” The exploit installs an application that allows “anything to be installed anywhere”. There was a time when Mac users were a small contingent on the Internet […]
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A History Lesson: Apple’s Patented Method for Amplifying DDoS
In late-1999, Apple was granted US Patent No 5,931,961 for Discovery of acceptable packet size using ICMP echo. A form of this mechanism was implemented in Mac OS 9 and was soon misused as a means of amplifying DDoS attacks . This patent is widely-cited by inventors at other Internet giants, but the mistake in its method […]