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Apple Hit By Hackers Who Targeted Facebook

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-hacked-is-now-the-trendy-thing-to-do dept.

snydeq writes "Apple was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date, Reuters reports. 'The same software, which infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp's Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, was used to launch attacks against Facebook, which the social network disclosed on Friday. ... A person briefed on the investigation into the attacks said that hundreds of companies, including defense contractors, had been infected with the same malicious software, or malware. The attacks mark the highest-profile cyber attacks to date on businesses running Mac computers.'"

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  1. Re:That's Impossible! by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny, if it's Windows that gets hit, the first thing said around here is that the OS should be secure enough to prevent such attacks.

    And, unless the attack affects one user account only... They are right. That goes for Windows, MacOS, Linux, *BSD, and INSERT_ANY_OTHER_FSCKING_OS_HERE

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    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  2. Re:Hackers reported that the malware "just worked. by theVarangian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But...they were using Apples. Everyone knows that the Apple OSs can't be hacked. So it is perfectly OK to click on any link that strikes ones fancy. Isn't it?

    You do realise that this was a bug in Oracle Java don't you? That's a cross platform vulnerability, the Mal/JavaJar-B trojan for example also affected Windows, Linux and Unix systems.

  3. Re:Here's what Apple said on their website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Apple responds quickly to online threats and automatically delivers security updates directly to your Mac.

    I'm sure you're trying to make a point with this post but the thing is that quote is accurate. Especially the last sentence. You see, Apple identified the security issue (third party Java plug ins) and have already released an update that deals with the problem. They didn't wait weeks (or months...) - they responded to the online threat quickly.

    So, while I can guess what point you were trying to make with your post, I must say I don't think you quite succeeded...