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CoreText Font Rendering Bug Leads To iOS, OS X Exploit
redkemper writes with this news from BGR.com (based on a report at Hacker News), excerpting: "Android might be targeted by hackers and malware far more often than Apple's iOS platform, but that doesn't mean devices like the iPhone and iPad are immune to threats. A post on a Russian website draws attention to a fairly serious vulnerability that allows nefarious users to remotely crash apps on iOS 6, or even render them unusable. The vulnerability is seemingly due to a bug in Apple's CoreText font rendering framework, and OS X Mountain Lion is affected as well."
Agreed.
It's the same as Windows, you just target what gets you the largest return. Organised crime is a business, just like any other.
However there is still the walled garden thing, even if Apple went back up to a 50:50 market share with Android, Android would get targeted more because every Android user can choose to install any application and give that app the permission to email their bank details to Russia.
With iOS they have to wait for a good ol' fashioned buffer overflow before they can grab anything I guess.
Unless you get that with iOS too? I don't know I've never owned one.
But the 8:2 logic holds up, when the sample size it that large I'm guessing that's exactly the reason why.
Ultimately it's all moot.
If Apple had 100% of the market share this is what would happen:
The crims would send everyone sms/emails with links to pages that asked them for their passwords an X percent of users would give it to them.
No amount of security or walled gardens get around the fact most of you are really really thick.
You don't have to install Cute Kitty Wallpapers with internet, sms and bank details access.
Because that's all this "malware" is, it's not big or clever, 50% are just from the wrong side of the bell curve.
Oh, an I use Linux.
On the Desktop.
Well, I used to, because who the hell uses a desktop anymore anyway?
Have you seen this cute screensaver I found!!!