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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they
are growing fast. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...rground_sales/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...g_keychain s/ I'm not posting these to pull someone's chain but to let Apple users know what is going on. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
On 2017-03-17 15:53, Eric Stevens wrote:
Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they are growing fast. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/ .... 2015? Seriously? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...rground_sales/ If the news is out, the fix will be in soon if not already there. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...g_keychain s/ ..... 2015 ... Seriously? I'm not posting these to pull someone's chain but to let Apple users know what is going on. With Mac's sales rise over the past 10 years it's inevitable - esp. given the general demographics of Mac buyers. Nothing to see here (other than 2 year old clickbait and some fresher clickbait). -- "If war is God's way of teaching Americans geography, then recession is His way of teaching everyone a little economics." ..Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing. |
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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
On 2017-03-17 19:53:03 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they are growing fast. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...rground_sales/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...g_keychain s/ I'm not posting these to pull someone's chain Sure you are, and we know who that might be. ;-) but to let Apple users know what is going on. ....er, right. With reports from "The Register" article dated "5 Nov 2015", and "1 Sept 2015" along with that Dark web tale. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
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wrote: Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they are growing fast. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/ an outdated article discussing exploits that have long been patched and never did much anyway. non-issue. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...e_underground_ sales/ that's already been patched, and as is typical with any of these, it requires the user to intentionally download and install it. it can't 'just happen'. non-issue. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...oit_back_pilla ging_keychains/ This was fixed in the OS X El Capitan beta and the latest stable version of OS X * version 10.10.5 fixed back in yosemite, two major versions ago. the current version of macos is sierra/10.12.3, with 10.12.4 due as soon as next week. another non-issue. I'm not posting these to pull someone's chain but to let Apple users know what is going on. you're posting solely to troll about things you don't understand. the above is nothing more than linkbait. you don't own a mac and don't know much about them and argue when those who have and use them try to educate you. none of those has had any major (or even minor) effect on mac users and all of them have been patched. what those and other linkbait articles fail to state is that apple continues to make the mac and ios *very* secure, more so than other systems. nothing is perfect, but the bar for mac malware is *so* high that malware authors will target windows and android because the return on investment is *much* higher. this is particularly true with android, where very few users are running the latest version and are sitting ducks. |
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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:32:05 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2017-03-17 19:53:03 +0000, Eric Stevens said: Compared with Windows the numbers are still relatively small but they are growing fast. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/1...ware_explodes/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...rground_sales/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...g_keychain s/ I'm not posting these to pull someone's chain Sure you are, and we know who that might be. ;-) but to let Apple users know what is going on. ...er, right. With reports from "The Register" article dated "5 Nov 2015", and "1 Sept 2015" along with that Dark web tale. I didn't notice the date. They popped up today via my Yahoo home page. In any case, the situation can only have got worse in the intervening year and a half. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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OT - Macs are now being significantly targeted with malware
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: but to let Apple users know what is going on. ...er, right. With reports from "The Register" article dated "5 Nov 2015", and "1 Sept 2015" along with that Dark web tale. I didn't notice the date. of course not. you never do, nor do you understand what you read. They popped up today via my Yahoo home page. that explains a lot. linkbait and you bit. if malware is a concern at *all*, you should reconsider using yahoo in any form. In any case, the situation can only have got worse in the intervening year and a half. it hasn't. it's actually *more* secure than it used to be because the system has been hardened and lots of exploits have been patched. |
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