ZDNet

Winner mocks OS X hacking contest

A clarification was made to this story. Read below for details. update Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by ...
Computerworld

Hacking Team’s malware uses UEFI rootkit to survive OS reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I gave this security-centric Linux OS a try, and it's an ethical hacker's dream

It's packed full of tools.
Threat Post

Patrick Wardle on OS X Malware With a Possible Hacking Team Connection

Threatpost Editor Mike Mimoso talks to Synack director of research and well-known OS X hacker Patrick Wardle about the discovery of an OS X malware dropper that likely was developed by the Hacking ...
PC World

Hacking Team’s malware uses a UEFI rootkit to survive operating system reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...
AppleInsider

Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial

A December video tutorial teaching viewers how to modify a netbook to run Mac OS X has landed tech magazine Wired in hot water with Apple's legal department. "I start ...