” Got some examples of that . . . . so we can determine WHO is blowing the hot air?”
Dave Maynor who is in this article and the apple wifi driver vulns they claimed not to exist... and then patched.
That ‘vulnerability’ required the user to click on a link that the user had no way to know whether it was trustworthy or not.
Only the stupid do such clicking.
My guess is, Maynor feels dissed that Apple doesn’t jump and fetch at his beck and call. That has nothing to do with vulnerabilities and everything to do with Apple’s corporate culture. They almost never admit to problems of any sort. When they fix something, they are instead dealing with an issue. (exceptions have been when they are forced to do a recall on an item.)
It’s just their way of doing things - everything, not just ‘vulnerabilities’.
Even with all that, there hasn’t been a real in-the-wild computer-being-taken-over-by-something type problem that I recall since the Autostart Worm more than 10 years ago. The solution to that was to check a checkbox to keep executables from automatically starting when you inserted a CD in the CD drive.
Ah, no. Not the same vulnerabilities nor the same exploitability. Maynor has NEVER demonstrated his third party driver/card exploit on an unmodified Apple laptop despite numerous challenges to do so, including one where, if he could break in, he could take the laptop home with him. Apple, when not given the supposed codes that could compromise an Apple laptop, instituted a top-to-bottom audit of all the code in the drivers and found three buffer overflow issues that would cause a Denial of Service crash... that's what they patched.
Maynor also refused to provide his exploit to the third party company whose card and driver he DID use. Not professional at all.
All of this was hashed out in public for months. Maynor could have ended it all by merely demonstrating his hack on an Mac laptop. He would not. Could it be because he COULD NOT?
Maynor has a personal beef with Apple since his hyped-up OS X wi-fi exploit turned out not to be and he was humiliated in the community. He was unable to put up or shut up.