Hacker shows how he Wi-Fi attacked Apple

During an August 2006 presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Maynor claimed to have found a way to take over a Mac computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card.

Apple fan boys waded into him for not revealing technical details of how the attack happened. They claimed that such an attack was impossible because the Mac didn't have security bugs because Steve of Cappuccino told them so.

Apple did fix the bug but refused to credit Maynor. It claimed it found the bug all by itself and did not have to read the notification that Maynor sent them.

However, in publishing details of his hack, Maynor has explained that the reason that he had been unable to speak about it was because he had signed an NDA. He did not say who that NDA was with but he says it is not in force now.

The details of the hack have been included in a paper published in the September issue of Uninformed.org, an online hacking magazine. Maynor told ComputerWorld that there was a lot of interesting information in the paper, if you're doing vulnerability research on Apple, that is. µ