OS X Security: How I became a spam kingpin, went legit and turned detective

May 14, 2008 (Wednesday) | MacOS X

I'm picking up the first-person account of a Leopard Server root exploit where it left off from my preceding post. I did slam the door on the ClamAV exploiter, and close observation for a couple of weeks allayed my concerns that any lasting hole had been blown in my OS X Leopard Server's security. I felt quite pleased with myself. My mail server was back on-line and healthy, and days of backed-up e-mails, including the requisite quantity of spam, started streaming in. I was a happy camper in April. Then came May, which has been an unkind month thus...