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Dino A. Dai ZoviSecurity Researcherddz@theta44.orghttp://blog.trailofbits.comhttp://theta44.org

Why talk about Mac exploits?

•Macs are becoming more prevalent, especially in consumer laptops•Macs were 20% of laptops sold in the U.S. during July and August•Memory corruption vulnerabilities enable system compromise, worms,spyware, and other malware•Mac OS X is signiﬁcantly lacking in memory corruption defense featurescompared to other current operating systems like Windows Vista and Linux•ASLR, Non-eXecutable memory, stack and heap memory protections•Difference between Safety and Security•Level of Risk = Threats * Vulnerability * Attack Likelihood•Threats and Attack Likelihood are currently low, Vulnerability is still high

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hlian

Also: Dino Dai Zovi: I like you YOU THINK GOOD.

reply03 / 19 / 2009

hlian

Note: this is NOT under a CC license. Dino Dai Zovi owns full copyright of this presentation. It's only here because his server needs some loving.

reply03 / 19 / 2009

Non-eXecutable Memory for Dino Dai Zovi: Mac OS Xploitation

Dino Dai Zovi gives an excellent overview about why OS X's security is severely lagging behind Linux and even Vista.

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