Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @05:48AM from the doesn't-play-well-with-others dept.

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Now that it's being increasingly targeted by botnet herders, Apple has a thing or two to learn about cooperating with friendly security researchers. Boris Sharov, the CEO of Dr. Web, the Russian security company that first reported more than half a million Macs were infected with Flashback malware last week, says when his company alerted Apple to the botnet, it never responded to him. Worse yet, on Monday Apple asked a Russian registrar to take down a domain it said was being used to host a command and control server for Flashback, but in fact was a 'sinkhole' that Dr. Web had set up to observe and analyze the botnet. Sharov describes the lack of communication and cooperation as a symptom of a company that has never before had to work closely with the security industry. 'For Microsoft, we have all the security response team's addresses,' he says. 'We don't know the antivirus group inside Apple.'"

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Re:Mac's don't get malware by BasilBrush · 2012-04-10 14:20 · Score: 1, Redundant

Really? Are we still doing this dumb claim?
Is a peanut a nut? No.
Is a tomato a fruit? Yes.
If you ask for nuts, peanuts will be one of the things expects.
If you ask for fruit, you're probably not after a tomato.
PC stands for Personal Computer not personal computer. As in IBM PC stands for IBM Personal Computer, not IBM personal computer. Proper noun versus adjective/noun.
When people say PC, they don't mean Mac. Unless they are dumb slashdotters who think misinformed pedantry is clever.