Viruses and Macintosh Security
Mon, 10/20/2008 - 21:50 — siteadmin
Will the real Mac threats please stand up?
Daniel Adinolfi, senior security engineer for Cornell University’s information technology organization, lists...the most dangerous security risks facing Mac users.
Think you're safe because you have a Mac? That's dangerous thinking. Duane Hawk offers this article from MacLife for a sobering insight into how safe Macs really are: Unlock The Truth About Mac Security Risks
From the article:
- “I am not going to jump up and down and rant that everyone needs to run antivirus—that would be idiotic,” says Romo[Macintosh project manager for Symantec]. “But that being said, in mid-June we had four threats come out in six days, including a keylogger.”
- It’s actually quite difficult to write a virus for Mac OS X. But there are other ways to compromise a computer aside from infecting it with a virus.
Daniel Adinolfi, senior security engineer for Cornell University’s information technology organization, lists...the most dangerous security risks facing Mac users.
Check out the article. Read the whole thing. We all need to know this.