Hacker Gains Root Access to Mac OS X in 30 Minutes

[Phil]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2616&ncid=2616&e=4&u=/nf/20060306/tc_nf/41948

 

[Ned]

What they don't tell you is he was given SSH access to the machine.  Once you give someone that kind of access, it's not too difficult to get malicious.

 

[rhmahoney]

Subsequently, ther was a Hacker Challenge posted by the University of Wisconsin that had a Mac Mini properly configured. It resisted all attacks for the 38 hrs it was allowed to be on the internet. T UW IT department then forced them to stop due the the humongous bandwidth of the attackers!