Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase'

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers have analyzed a new piece of Mac malware that uses a multi-stage attack similar to typical Windows malware infection routines. In a post titled 'An interesting case of Mac OSX malware' the Microsoft Malware Protection Center closed with this statement: 'In conclusion, we can see that Mac OSX is not safe from malware. Statistically speaking, as this operating system gains in consumer usage, attacks on the platform will increase. Exploiting Mac OSX is not much different from other operating systems. Even though Mac OSX has introduced many mitigation technologies to reduce risk, your protection against security vulnerabilities has a direct correlation with updating installed applications.'"

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Security vulnerabilities by vendor

[Presto Vivace]

anyone who is interested can look up security vulnerabilities by vendor.

Re:The voice of experience

[Joce640k]

How to use an apostrophe

Re:MS Bullshit, Part 3

[Guy Harris]

Apple now requires all new MacOS X applications to create a proper sandboxing profile,

Apple now requires all new Mac App Store applications to create a proper sandboxing profile. Non-App Store apps need not do so.