Mac OS X NOT hacked in 38 hours (OS X hacked in 30 minutes counter-test)
In response to the ludicrous article on ZDnet that stated that any OS X box could be hacked within 30 minutes just by being connected to the internet, a rivaling test was set up by the university of Wisconsin.
38 hours and over 4000 SSH login attempts later, the box is still standing, unhacked and unharmed. Not only did no intruder manage to recieve root access on the box, they didn't even manage to defile the web page (which was the challenge).
Visit the (still unhacked) webpage: http://test.doit.wisc.edu/
Original discussion thread: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=61737
38 hours and over 4000 SSH login attempts later, the box is still standing, unhacked and unharmed. Not only did no intruder manage to recieve root access on the box, they didn't even manage to defile the web page (which was the challenge).
Visit the (still unhacked) webpage: http://test.doit.wisc.edu/
Original discussion thread: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=61737
Comments
Several social engineering attempts were received, including one purporting to be from the government of Sweden, which apparently uses GMail. ;-)
LOL
"Yesterday we discovered the Mac OSX "challenge" was not an activity authorized by the UW-Madison. Once the test came to the attention of our CIO, she ended it. The site, test.doit.wisc.edu, will be removed from the network tonight. Our primary concern is for security and network access for UW services. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to the community. Let me know if you have any other questions. I am the primary contact for our Division on this."
..on another note, ZDnet? They suck harder than Chinese algebra.