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Mac Flashback Flaw Re-used By New Malware Campaign
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 05:26 AM
Interesting article but the headline seems to be click-bait by focusing on the Mac flaw without regard to the Mac AND Windows nature of this "attack". At least that's my opinion.
Perhaps an alternative header would be "Flashback is back, Now Hitting Windows and Mac."
Perhaps an alternative header would be "Flashback is back, Now Hitting Windows and Mac."
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 09:59 PM
windows is much more protected then apple is, we are only seeing the beginning of mac's getting it. Windows will be hit with a light nibble, mac will be beaten up badly.
Oh mr...jobs I HOPE YOU ARE SEEING THIS.
Oh mr...jobs I HOPE YOU ARE SEEING THIS.
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 11:02 PM
nonseq, on 29 April 2012 - 05:26 AM, said:
Interesting article but the headline seems to be click-bait by focusing on the Mac flaw without regard to the Mac AND Windows nature of this "attack". At least that's my opinion.
Perhaps an alternative header would be "Flashback is back, Now Hitting Windows and Mac."
Perhaps an alternative header would be "Flashback is back, Now Hitting Windows and Mac."
I think an important part of the article was missed.
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If encountering an unpatched Windows system, the attack installs a backdoor whereas for Mac computers the attackers download a Python script to perform the same function. Although not as sophisticated, the latter still gives the hackers a lot of file-stealing and remote power over the Mac.
That right there states that basically this is a non-issue for Windows based machines. If you refuse to update, that is your own problem, no matter your OS.
Now, the question I have, is that if this is using the same attack vector as Flashback, won't Apple users have it patched as well? The article was quite vague on this part.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 08:04 AM
userwloo, on 29 April 2012 - 09:59 PM, said:
windows is much more protected then apple is, we are only seeing the beginning of mac's getting it. Windows will be hit with a light nibble, mac will be beaten up badly.
Oh mr...jobs I HOPE YOU ARE SEEING THIS.
Oh mr...jobs I HOPE YOU ARE SEEING THIS.
Windows 7 may be more protected than Mac OS X ( Not XP) but if so for the same reasons I would have an alarm and very good locks in a high crime area, where I don't even lock my doors where I do live. Until recently there was simply no significant in-the-wild threat to protect against, but Apple's continued success has made them more viable targets for botnet creators , adware and such. Apple is better protected than you may think though, and getting more so. Apple has required admin password for privilege escalation for years - sooner than windows did. Code signing and sand boxing are present. They still need work, but Lion has made them much stronger. Apple now includes a background malware protection app, with automatic updates from apple (user can turn updates off though). The threat is finally real, so people will be locking those doors.
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