[Full-disclosure] Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security

mz4ph0d at gmail.com mz4ph0d at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 21:57:18 GMT 2006


At 8:21 PM +0000 1/3/06, Dave Korn wrote:
>make Mac users less vulnerable to social engineering than windows users, and
>as long as the attitude persists that Macs are somehow special and secure,
>then uneducated Mac users will be even /more/ likely to open an executable
>attachment, because they won't believe it can harm them, because they've
>been told over and over how their Mac is "secure" and all those viruses are
>only a problem on windows.


Sorry to spoil everyone's fun.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382>

Maybe, just maybe, Apple are actually better (able/positioned) to
respond quickly to vulnerabilities before the exploits in-the-wild
affect more than 50 people? Who knows.


Z.



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