Hackers Confirm Apple Getting More Attention
Confirming what people here have been saying for months, hackers at the Defcon Black Hat conference in Las Vegas talked about how Apple products are getting more attention from the vulnerability exploitation scene. Statistics are one thing but when there's a presentation at the conference and it's got over a thousand people wanting to hear about Apple software hacking, that's something else entirely.
Confirming what people here have been saying for months, hackers at the Defcon Black Hat conference in Las Vegas talked about how Apple products are getting more attention from the vulnerability exploitation scene. Statistics are one thing but when there's a presentation at the conference and it's got over a thousand people wanting to hear about Apple software hacking, that's something else entirely.
"There are a lot more people getting into it and really getting their hands dirty," said Hotchkies, who noted an obvious spike this year in the number of DefCon attendees toting Macintosh laptops. "I've been seeing a lot of reverse engineering on the Apple platform."