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| Thread ID: 80672 | 2007-07-01 10:40:00 | There is big money in malware botnets | winmacguy (3367) | PC World Chat |
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| 564840 | 2007-07-01 21:56:00 | Mac OS does have flaws in it, however Apple tends to fix them before tha hackers compromise them. Uhuh. www.zdnet.com.au |
pctek (84) | ||
| 564841 | 2007-07-01 22:34:00 | FUD. The fear of what "might" potentially happen. ZDnet loves finding stuff like that. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 564842 | 2007-07-01 22:56:00 | I was always under the impression that you should cut and paste any links in an email in to your browser, instead of just clicking the link. | plod (107) | ||
| 564843 | 2007-07-02 01:44:00 | Just click them IMO. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 564844 | 2007-07-02 05:39:00 | "Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a turf war between rival criminal enterprises connected to two of the most sophisticated malware toolkits in current use." That just silly. They got detected, that means that they arn't _that_ sophisticated. |
byte (11156) | ||
| 564845 | 2007-07-03 06:00:00 | Which would be why PC World magazine advised of 45 bugs being patched in OS X, with several of them being critical security flaws (page 16, right-hand colum in the blue). I guess that makes the PC only comment defunct. I also note that iTunes seems to be appearing in the apps-that-need-regular-patching list as well. Isn't iTunes an APPLE (originally) application? There are bugs in all platforms. Windows has bugs, Mac OSX has bugs and Linux-based OSes have bugs. The difference is that Windows is a very large monoculture. As anybody who passed biology at school will know, a large population with no diversity is extremely vulnerable to disease. A well spaced population of Macs will be nowhere near as vulnerable as the Windows masses and Linux based systems, managed almost exclusively by power users and with a thousand variations, would be nearly impossible to attack on a large scale. A skilled hacker can get into any of these platforms given a single configuration error if they have enough time but only Windows is vulnerable, common and mismanaged enough to be threatened by worms on a weekly basis. This has a negative impact on all Windows users. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 564846 | 2007-07-03 06:06:00 | T A well spaced population of Macs will be nowhere near as vulnerable as the Windows masses and Linux based systems, managed almost exclusively by power users and with a thousand variations, would be nearly impossible to attack on a large scale. Close but your heading somewhat towards the security through obscurity myth. My understanding would be that Mac OS X (Unix) has a "no_root_user" in the permissions dept which along with requiring Admin access which means that stuff can't get into the system unless you authenticate (give permission) That would be my generalized understanding of it. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 564847 | 2007-07-03 06:09:00 | There are bugs in all platforms. Windows has bugs, Mac OSX has bugs and Linux-based OSes have bugs. The difference is that Windows is a very large monoculture. As anybody who passed biology at school will know, a large population with no diversity is extremely vulnerable to disease. A well spaced population of Macs will be nowhere near as vulnerable as the Windows masses and Linux based systems, managed almost exclusively by power users and with a thousand variations, would be nearly impossible to attack on a large scale. A skilled hacker can get into any of these platforms given a single configuration error if they have enough time but only Windows is vulnerable, common and mismanaged enough to be threatened by worms on a weekly basis. This has a negative impact on all Windows users.I do realise all this. Just a certain other member of this forum believes his OS is perfect, what I posted was to refute that claim |
Myth (110) | ||
| 564848 | 2007-07-03 06:49:00 | Does anyone using a unix-type OS know when he/she has been compromised? It seem quite ludicrous to argue for relative (un)crackability unless you know how to determine whether your machine has been cracked or not. What are the OSX tools? What are the Linux tools? Have any of you examined/written your firewall ruleset? (Is it even possible in Windows/Vista?) Have you ever wondered what that javascript is doing? Ever run a packet sniffer/lsof? How would you avoid a rootkit? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 564849 | 2007-07-03 07:03:00 | Does anyone using a unix-type OS know when he/she has been compromised? It seem quite ludicrous to argue for relative (un)crackability unless you know how to determine whether your machine has been cracked or not. What are the OSX tools? What are the Linux tools? Tools for OS X are available here www.apple.com You could probably get a lot of your other questions answered on the firewall and packet sniffing answered on the apple support forums. If you asked an Apple admin I am sure they would be able to tell you how to identify whether your system had been compromised aside from anything blatantly obvious. As far as I know, your system would need to have unprotected ports open on the internet in order to be compromised. Mac OS ships with all ports shut until you open them. You have to manually turn on the firewall. |
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