On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha < quix...@dulcineatech.com> wrote:
> > While the iOS and Mac OS X do have a better security track record than > Windows does, I'm quite certain that's because "The Scene" has been > focussing on Windows due to its greater numbers. With Apple's > increasing financial success, malware such as Mac Defender is starting > to crop up. > Mac Defender was a scam app that the user had to download and run. That’s barely malware, and can by definition happen on any platform that allows users to run downloaded code. Code Red, on the other hand, could infect a server running IIS without user interaction. They really could not be more different from a security perspective. > Apple's security update to fix the Mac Defender exploit was a gigabyte > download - compressed! That suggests that whatever holes Apple > plugged were all over creation. > Or that the files involved were big. Apple’s patches aren’t binary diffs, so if you patch a 200MB file with a one-line change, that whole file is still included in the update package. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
