Intego's "Year In Mac Security" Report

david.emery notes the release of Intego's "Year In Mac Security" report (PDF), adding: "Mac OS X and iPhones that haven't been jailbroken fare pretty well (although vulnerabilities exist, there's not been a lot of exploitation). Apple does come in for criticism for 'time to fix' known vulnerabilities. Jailbroken iPhones are a mess. The biggest risk to Macs are Trojan horses, often from pirated software."

Biggest Mac security threat...

[Anonymous Coward]

Installing Windows.

lose/lose

[starbugs]

lose/lose (from the article) seems like a fun game to play right before installing Debian.

Re:we don't need economic buzz

[icebike]

We need an economist to explain us how the us, by privatizing gains and socializong losses turned into a fascist state.

And an English teacher to straighten out that sentence.

Re:we don't need economic buzz

[value_added]

And an English teacher to straighten out that sentence.

I think it's Korean.

Re:With great freedom comes great resposibility

[grouchomarxist]

in a safe manor

My security guards keep my manor safe.

Re:With great freedom comes great resposibility

[DNS-and-BIND]

Please don't bash 20/20. Their scientific methodology might have been a little bit off, but their motives were in the right place. They were just trying to show that a major car manufacturer was corrupt...this is the media's job, isn't it? To expose corruption? Unless you can show that the car manufacturer has lily-white hands (and none of them do) please stop the bashing. These are educated, dedicated people who are doing a tough job under very difficult circumstances, and it's hard to get the stories to come out the right way 100% of the time.

Re:Biggest Mac security threat...

[x2A]

Yep, I'm still installing it... started last october... it's still only on 78% :-/ What the bet it'll crash at 99%? You know it's like a fundamental law of the universe; the longer any computer process takes, the more likely it will crash when it gets to 99%.

Re:You can't handle the truth

[x2A]

"but doesn't mention that Adobe's own CS4 install tries to phone home"

Riiight... cuz that's what trojans are famous for isn't it... checking to make sure that you're allowed to run then. My god I do wish trojans actually did do that, and better than other software does it. I'll admit on here, I don't legally own any trojans at all, which means all I have to do is make sure that they can phone home to verify this, and never have to worry about them again! Ahh... pleasant thoughts.