Miller and Dai Zovi earned fame in previous years for hacking Macintosh computers at CanSecWest’s annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. Metasploit is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy for hackers to launch a barrage of attacks against a computer system. “Our goal was to make Mac OS X a first-class target for Metasploit.” Metasploit already supported Mac attacks, but until recently the Mac code hadn’t been as good as Metasploit’s Windows and Linux tools, said Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security researcher who talked about the new tools with his collaborator Charlie Miller at the CanSecWest conference Friday. Over the past few days, the researchers have been quietly adding new software to the Metasploit toolkit, used by security researchers and criminals alike. ![]() ![]() Two well-known Mac hackers are updating a widely used hacking toolkit, making it easier to take control of a Macintosh computer.
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