VB
2006 Program Released
The
Virus
Bulletin 2006 program has been posted. On Friday, October
13, Marius van Oers (McAfee
AVERT) will be presenting on "Macintosh OS X Binary
Malware". This should make for a very interesting, and
highly technical discussion. We'll see you all in Montreal!
The
following appears in the presentation digest:
"With
the recent appearances of OSX/Leap and OSX/Inqtana it is clear
that Macintosh users are also vulnerable to native malware.
Due to the appearance of Mac OSX for Intel, the userbase of
people running OSX may grow much bigger than it is today and
therefore also draw the attention of malware writers. OSX
binary files used to be of the BSD a.out file format specification.
Nowadays, the Mach-O (Mach object) file format is used for
binary files. This paper will mainly focus on the current
OSX binary file format structure and the possible security
issues related to that."
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