Anyway, this is of a piece with the increasing questions about the company's ethical standards.
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Goldstein  All-Star Member  "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 |  Posted - Apr 6 2012 : 9:51PM |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Apr 6 2012 : 10:40PM Anyway, this is of a piece with the increasing questions about the company's ethical standards. [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Apr 7 2012 : 1:31PM Yeah, lost of people mistakenly think Macs are superior code wise, but in actuality their market share was just to economically low. If you could break into a bank and get away with it, would you want a small mom and pop or a large national bank? Well, looks like malware devs are finally targeting Macs. [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 29 2012 : 7:28AM By NICOLE PERLROTH April 23, 2012, 6:45 pm Earlier this month, security researchers discovered a new piece of malware had infected more than half a million Apple computers in what was the largest-scale attack on Apple’s Mac OS X operating system to date. The malware spread through a security hole in Java software that let its creators download a malicious program onto victims’ machines without prompting. Users did not even have to click a malicious link for their computers to be infected. The program simply downloaded itself. Apple released two security patches for the vulnerability and encouraged Mac users to run their software updates as soon as possible. Within two weeks, the number of infected computers dropped from 600,000 to 140,000, according to Symantec. On Monday, however, researchers at Intego, another computer security firm, discovered that a new variant of the malware, called Flashback.S, continued to spread through the same Java vulnerability. Security researchers said the variant was “actively being distributed in the wild” and noted that the malware deletes traces of itself on victims’ machines to avoid detection. The original Flashback variant used infected computers for click fraud, in which clicks on a Web advertisement are manipulated in exchange for kickbacks. Intego researchers did not say what the new variant of Flashback is being used for. But as with all malware, its creators can choose to use infected computers however they like. This is not the first time that Mac users have been hit by a Windows-style computer virus. Last year, security researchers discovered that a piece of malware, called Mac Defender, was aimed at Macs until Apple released a patch at the end of May 2011. Several cautioned that it signaled a new era in which Mac users become the new target for Windows-style malware attacks. Windows computers were a frequent target for attacks because there had always been more of them. Now, security researchers say, Apple’s growing share of the PC market has put a target on its back. In 2008, Adam J. O’Donnell, a security architect at Sourcefire, a computer security firm, predicted that digital criminals would take aim at Mac users with Windows-style malware attacks once Apple’s share of the PC market reached 16 percent, assuming that Windows’ antivirus solutions were at least 80 percent effective. Apple currently holds 12 percent of the PC market in the United States, according to Gartner, a research company. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - May 6 2012 : 2:33PM So, in connection to this, does anyone have the name of a good virus protection program for Macs? [Link] |
| Gunzo Senior Member 1377 Posts 2/05 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 6:43AM A lot of people use Mac now when they're not stupidly expensive anymore, so it's quite natural that viruses will target the platform. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 9:53AM [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 10:11AM The Mac attacks I posted about here were due to exploiting vulnerabilities within Java (not the Mac OS itself). Anti-virus/Anti-malware programs are great and necessary. BUT, they don't insulate you from the bad guys exploiting vulnerabilities with Java, Flash and Adobe Reader that can get around your protection -- usually because you were tricked or careless about clicking on something. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 10:21AM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 2:47PM Jacco [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - May 8 2012 : 8:50PM [Link] |
| Gunzo Senior Member 1377 Posts 2/05 | Posted - May 11 2012 : 6:29AM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 11 2012 : 9:54AM They are two completely different things. Java is the bigger security risk, as it is an application language, not just a scripting language. Jacco Edited by - jacco on 5/11/2012 9:56:11 AM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - May 11 2012 : 11:12AM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 11 2012 : 4:21PM My whitelists are small and I surf the web every day without problems. Sure, when I login to Facebook I just get a blank page, but let's be honest, that's actually an improvement! Jacco [Link] |
| Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - May 13 2012 : 9:35PM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 14 2012 : 6:06AM Jacco [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - May 14 2012 : 6:01PM [Link] |
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