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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Macs in an Enterprise

 ...are more vulnerable than PCs. Via Slashdot:

 "Macs More Vulnerable Than Windows For Enterprise 101


Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 09, @09:32AM

from the commencing-holy-war dept.

sl4shd0rk writes

"At a Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers presented exploits on Apple's DHX authentication scheme which can compromise all connected Macs on the LAN within minutes. "If we go into an enterprise with a Mac and run this tool we will have dozens or hundreds of passwords in minutes," Stamos said. Macs are fine as long as you run them as little islands, but once you hook them up to each other, they become much less secure."

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