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Information Technology News FUD Alert: should fanboys be worried about the great Mac Hack Attack?
Information Technology News FUD Alert: should fanboys be worried about the great Mac Hack Attack? | FUD Alert: should fanboys be worried about the great Mac Hack Attack? |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 25 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security
vendor Sophos, told The Times that "It's still a drop in the ocean
compared to Windows vulnerabilities" but stressed that these Mac
vulnerabilities have "become more sophisticated and more criminally
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Cluley does, of course, have a point. Although I remain to be convinced of how accurate it will actually turn out to be given the passage of time. After all, Macs have traditionally appealed to an audience of computer users who are less interested in the technology and more in the ability to 'just do it' if you will excuse the mixed branding message. I don't agree that hackers will see this community of Mac users as being a soft target any more in the future than they do already. While the user base may not be anywhere near as large as that of Windows users, there are enough Mac users already for the malware gangs to have taken it seriously as a potential cash cow. Yet can any reader out there, hand on heart, say that their Mac has been infected successfully; that they have lost data as a result; that their computing resources have been compromised or identity stolen courtesy of some Mac malware? My suspicion is that it has gone very quiet indeed. If it were easy it would have happened already, after all the Mac is not an idiot-user free zone. Sorry to burst any fanboy bubbles out there. So are Macs invulnerable to malware infection? Read on for some sound security advice... CONTINUES |
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