Posts Tagged ‘mac os x’

When screen shots go bad

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Browsing the iTunes App Store today, I found a priceless application that turns your iPhone into a flash light. Needless to say, I went on and checked the screen shots. So, without further ado, here they are:

As Marcel Molina puts it, “I like that there are two screen shots for the Light app“. Nicely said.

Mac OS X – Epic Fail

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

While getting up to speed with Slashdot, I found an interesting article about a security breach on Mac OS X that allows user escalation through AppleScript.

Trying it on the terminal works, but, as they say, the user needs to have physical access to the machine. So, PatrĂ­cio suggested trying to access through SSH to see if it works, and it did.

Slashdot member gombah99 posted a tip on how to neutralize it non-destructively:

  1. cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/
  2. sudo tar -czf ARDAgent.app.gz ARDAgent.app
  3. sudo chmod 600 ARDAgent.app.gz
  4. sudo rm -r ARDAgent.app

Here’s to you, Apple Un^H^HSecurity Team!