Hacker: Snow Leopard less secure than Windows
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated drivers As reported by Techworld, Snow Leopard, Apple's highly anticipated new operating system, lacks basic security features that are found in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 says Charlie Miller, a noted security researcher.
Address Space Layout Randomization, commonly referred to as ASLR, randomly assigns data to the memory to make it more difficult for hackers to locate the of critical operating system functions.
Charlie Miller of Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators who many people may remember from when he successfully hacked a fully patched Macbook in seconds, was disappointed upon hearing that Apple did little to improve ASLR from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
"Apple didn't change anything. It's the exact same ASLR as in Leopard, which means it's not very good. I hoped Snow Leopard would do full ASLR, but it doesn't. I don't understand why they didn't. But Apple missed an opportunity with Snow Leopard. Apple did make various moves to improve Mac OS X 10.6's security including a revamp of QuickTime and additions to Data Execution Prevention (DEP), a security feature built in to Windows Vista."
"Having both ASLR and DEP in an operating system makes it much more difficult for attackers to create working code," Miller argued. "If you don't have either, or just one of the two [ASLR or DEP], you can still exploit bugs, but with both, it's much, much harder. Snow Leopard's more secure than Leopard, but it's not as secure as Vista or Windows 7," he said. "When Apple has both [in place], that's when I'll stop complaining about Apple's security."
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Comments(8)
apart from a few things here and there snow leopard is alot more secure and fast. and
when i mean alot more secure i mean it i am a fan of windows 7 but i have used snow
leopard and sorry but i hate to say this it is more secure than windows 7.
damn right. snow leopard is more secure, i mean who are you gonna trust, a noted security
researcher or some guy's comment?
snow leopard is my bread and butter hack! easy , easy , easy! thank you apple.
snow leopard, and mac in general, is far less secure than windows vista and 7. ask any
security expert or professional hacker and they will give you the same answer.
macs are for red necks
right if you say so however i go to the microsft events im invited to the ones in october
and i know a microsoft ceo and aparently microsoft will agree mac is more secure so there
you have it. windows 7 is only more secure on one or two things in general mac is more
secure go to a microsoft event or ask a microsoft ceo and you will have your answer. get
it right!!!
mac su cked that's why. same old thing that never change will sooner later get broken if
someone want to do it. anyway, hate fanboy, seconded.
mac os is rubbish. a complete joke. they should stop programming that garbage.
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Bull s**t
By Come On on 18.09.2009 - 16:09