pcpro.co.uk — Davey Winder says Apple's claims that Mac owners need not worry about security are dangerous. "It's the changing nature of the threat - away from viruses into malware and beyond to user manipulation - that leaves Apple even more exposed."
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pinappuFeb 6, 2012
Apple targets the tech illiterate people ( American middle-class) and they sells their products to them by such gibberish.
macparrotFeb 6, 2012
Still not one single drive-by OS X virus. Are there exploits? Certainly and most are the, "You should install this wonderful product X and type in your user password!" that can and does happen on every single platform. The best OS security software in the world can't stop a stupid user from infecting themselves.
Also beware the source. What does Intego sell? Hmmm. Lastly Mac sales are increasing all over the world, not just in the US and can you point to one discrepancy in how they "sells" their products? Or answer why a lot of very smart people (including many in IT) are buying them?
johnnysoftwareFeb 7, 2012
Mac and Linux for the most part avoid native mobile code and at most stick to just the sandboxed interpreted kind.
Windows unfortunately does the opposite which logic and a decade of history shows is retarded, literally.
JavaScript can't be seen as perfectly safe but some brands are more so than others.
What looks really, really dangerous is CODECs on all platforms. Adding a programming language inside them seems to worsen security even more.
Apple recognized this as a problem as did Mozilla. Microsoft and Google are in denial and it does not look good on them.
I'd like to see all four work together on cleaning up all codecs in common use, plus come up with a set of principles to keep future codecs from being Achilles heels too.
Articles like this one however are devoid of actionable or informative content. Might as well be discussing which end of the egg to crack.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnnysoftwareFeb 7, 2012
Microsoft needed to act more swiftly than they did. The certificates were compromised months before knowledge of the hack existed. Windows and IE were absurdly vulnerable due to over reliance on PKI perfection that SSL and code signed mobile native x86 Windows code relies on. Ironically, it is Windows users that are even worse off than they know. In bringing up the compromised certificates, the author has unwittingly raised the specter of the actual truth. One that sits in uncomfortably stark contrast to the thesis of his article.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnnysoftwareFeb 7, 2012
I think everyone knows there are vulnerabilities on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, etc.
The real issue is what companies are doing enough about it to keep their platform from devolving into anarchy owned by anonymous criminals from shadowy international gangs and which ones are not.
There, Windows is fallen prey and the wolves have tasted it's blood so many times they will never stop hunting and killing it. That platform for most practical terms is over.
The ecosystem that preys on its customers is greater than the one that supplies them!
This won't change by wishing it would, pretending it is not the case, or whisper campaigns against much more successful and technically competent competitors.
Fixing Windows will take huge work that will likely never be done, and deep cuts in its vestigial infection prone appendices that will alway start more than a decade too late.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnnysoftwareFeb 7, 2012
The claims of false security are hilarious and ironic considering those making them get their revenue from Windows' incur able insecurity disease. And they've made these claims obliviously from 2004 to 2012. They sound like guys inside the Towering Inferno trying to sell fire insurance to gawking passers by across the street. It is one thing to be incredibly stupid for your own ends but this is absurd.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnnysoftwareFeb 7, 2012
The biggest problem so far was Cry Wolf whisper campaigns by disgruntled, unsuccessful Windows security companies that led to Eastern scareware Trojans getting written practically made to order. People who blindly followed the way things are done in the Windows world fell into their trap. There still is no malware on Macs that is endemic nor epidemic; both problems are a sobering reality on Windows, which now resembles computer security war's scorched earth.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.