Resurrecting the DMZ
On the footsteps of my previous post, this blog originated seven years ago as a showcase for noteworthy items I came across in my line of work. The running stuff was what I talked about when I didn't talk about malware outbreaks, privacy violations, social media nightmares and other ways technology turns against us.
At the time, I was a full-time journalist covering information security. More recently, I started moonlighting in the same field and once again feel compelled to help my friends and family live more securely.
With that said, I wanted to point to one of my favorite topics: Apple products. The company believes in security through obscurity - that is, if we don't tell them their machines are at risk for viruses and worms, they will never know. It helped that Apple for years attracted users more into creativity than commerce, that cared little about how the machines works, just as long as they looked cool. (And, obviously I am using sweeping generalizations here.)
If you've been keeping up with headlines the past month, you know now that Apple failed to release a fix in a timely manner to prevent infection of a particularly successful bit of malware that mimics an Adobe Flash Player window to get you to click.
Here's a slide show showing Apple's been spreading viruses longer than Microsoft, if only because Windows came out four years later and immediately became the bigger target for hackers.
Bad Apples: Mac Malware Through the Years
At the time, I was a full-time journalist covering information security. More recently, I started moonlighting in the same field and once again feel compelled to help my friends and family live more securely.
With that said, I wanted to point to one of my favorite topics: Apple products. The company believes in security through obscurity - that is, if we don't tell them their machines are at risk for viruses and worms, they will never know. It helped that Apple for years attracted users more into creativity than commerce, that cared little about how the machines works, just as long as they looked cool. (And, obviously I am using sweeping generalizations here.)
If you've been keeping up with headlines the past month, you know now that Apple failed to release a fix in a timely manner to prevent infection of a particularly successful bit of malware that mimics an Adobe Flash Player window to get you to click.
Here's a slide show showing Apple's been spreading viruses longer than Microsoft, if only because Windows came out four years later and immediately became the bigger target for hackers.
Bad Apples: Mac Malware Through the Years
