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Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack
Cludge writes "ZDNet has a story (and several related articles) about how Symantec has discovered evidence of an all-Mac based botnet that is actively involved in a DOS attack. Apparently, security on the exploited Macs (call them iBots?) was compromised when unwary users bit-torrented pirated copies of iWork 09 and Photoshop CS4 that contained malware. From the article: 'They describe this as the "first real attempt to create a Mac botnet" and note that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.'"
... that somebody didn't do it the old fashion way and post that the website host said bad things about Steve Jobs?
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
it just... BBRRRAAAIINNNNSSS
I find it amusing that in this case it appears the inability to run Photoshop on Linux is a good thing.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
I use Mac, and I love it! Macs never get vi
NO CARRIER
Anybody want my mod points?
But these iZombies have such cool eye-candy the Windoze and Linux could never catch up in the cool factor in a million years!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
So does this mean that Macs are finally Enterprise Ready?
Mac: Hi, I'm a mac!
PC: Im a.. *cough* PC...
Mac: Oh, you must be sick? Well I can't get sick.
PC: really?
Mac: (whispers) "Nobody knows I got HIV"
PC: Ahhhh... I just got a cold
Mac: See! I don't even have a cold!
The obvious solution is to switch to Linux, because everyone knows it has no viruses and never will.
I SAID NEVER WILL.
People who speak in generalities and think only in generalities. Problem is, that's not how the world works.
It does work that way, in general.
A botnet that just works.
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
If your intention is to create a large botnet, you are of course going to target the most popular operating system.
Not exactly. You're going to target the lowest hanging fruit. Which (no pun intended) is steadily becoming an Apple.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
MAC users should be rejoicing around the world! What this actually means is that hackers are noticing MACs are gaining in population and and they see profit in targeting them. What's going to fall next, Rome?
Maybe the quickest way to stop software piracy is through evil copies of legitimate software.
Microsoft already tried this and now their OS run/gets copied on more machines when ever!
What do you expect? It had to find a black turtleneck, offer some snide, unasked for criticism of your iTunes playlist, and order a double-whip, half-caf, non-fat latte before deciding which port was cool enough to grace with its packets. It may not be very effective, but it looks FABULOOOOOOOOOOOOUS!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Witchcraft, demons, and bad karma.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
It's like STDs - if you're careless and go sticking your junk everywhere without taking precautions, you'll probably catch something cruel, eventually.
That's why I run Linux. Running Linux pretty much rules out any possibility of having sex, and hence any chance of contracting an STD.
To summarize: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair).
Though I'm sure some would rather update that to be PEBMAC (...Mouse And Chair).
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
No, the funny part is that the users who torrented and installed pirated copies of iWork 09 and Photoshop CS4 got exactly what they deserved. Instant karma.
Instant karma's gonna get you - gonna knock you right on the head.
#DeleteChrome
I always heard that as PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer).
Well, the first Troy was established approximately 3000 BCE so one might expect that trojans have been around for 5000 years. Even then people knew not to eat bad apples.
iBot, same malware at an outrageous price
Antivirus Protection
load "$",8,1
I AM black, you insensitive pot!
"anyone who trades X for security deserves neither, and shall lose both".
You're talking about the X Window System here, right?
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Proving that mac users are just as stupid as windows users. No computer is perfect, as long as you have us Americans in front of it! We can break anything!
My UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
And yet I'll still get called a hater...
It's not a virus, it's a trojan, and no computer is stupid-user-proof.
Oh yeah? I've got a busted 486 with no hard drive that won't turn on. Try getting any idiot user to infect that one!
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Zombie Mac: Braaaaiiiinnnssss
Mac fanboy: Joke's on you, I have none
(I'm going to mod point hell for this one)
Help fight spam
Oh yeah? All they have to do is sneeze on it...
And voila, a virus laden PC ready to infect the unsuspecting.
http://www.linux.com/feature/42031
Old, but still funny. Though I'd guess the compatibility must have improved a lot since then. It'd be interesting to do a run with some modern ones.
I don't know how many times my university's email system has been slayed because some dumb secretary put everyone in the TO field. Last time it happened, she just had a baby and a national radio station had a cutest-baby contest. She registered and emailed everyone at the university to vote for her. A lot of people pressed reply-all, bickering about the bullshit. People got pissed that they got a lot of very huge (about 2 megs of addresses alone) emails, and in turn pressed reply-all to tell people to stop pushing reply-all. Other people then went on to suggest that those people are hypocrites and thought it'd be best to use reply-all. The university ended up pulling the plug on the email system for a few hours...
Does the Mac botnet have a more simple and intuitive UI than comparable Windows-based botnets? My grandma is a script kiddie, this sounds like the perfect system for her.