Ex-NSA researcher says that Apple’s insecure app-downloads enable Windows-style ‘dylib’ exploits

A former NSA and NASA security researcher claims to have identified techniques which enable the same kind of shared-library exploits in Apple’s OSX operating system that have plagued the Windows OS for over 15 years. Speaking to Threatpost at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Patrick Wardle, who is the director of research for Security-as-a-Service provider Synack, contends that OSX’s ‘dylib’ libraries can be substituted for malicious versions, providing the same exploit functionality...

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