The flurry of security issues involving Apple’s Mac OS X over the past few days once again hammers home the fact that no technology platform is invulnerable to attacks, whatever the perception might otherwise be, security analysts said.
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“All software has bugs, and a certain percentage of those bugs will be security vulnerabilties,” said Ira Winkler, an independent security analyst and author of the book Spies Among Us.
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“In Apple’s case, you can credit the media and all those folks who said the [OS X] platform was inherently secure” for drawing attention to it, Lindstrom said. Also playing a big part is the publicity surrounding Apple’s recent decision to move to Intel’s microprocessors, analysts said.
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“It shows increased activity and viability for future Macintosh-based threats on the Mac OS X platform,” Dunham said, pointing out that the last major Macintosh threat was the Autostart worm in 1998. “As a result, many Macintosh users are more likely to be complacent toward computer security and therefore are more likely to be vulnerable to any future threats that emerge against the Macintosh operating system,” he said. Continued
Source: NetworkWorld
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