Many of these may have been of their cute dog Muffy many were not, however, pictures of their cute dogs. A massive flaw in the way Quip created and published individual message links enabled hackers to access and download images sent by users of the free MMS service to each other. The site even has pictures of these fine human beings as they hack various devices.Įven worse is the very recent security nightmare due to a fairly lapse implementation of encryption in an iPhone app. but then you realise the hackers spent a couple of weeks figuring out a vulnerability in iPhone OS 3, then set up a booby-trapped web page that copied the SMS database from the handset.Īpple haters may like to read and gloat all about this here. Then another year goes by without any viruses or malware and we all forget about it until the next one.Īt the latest CanSecWest in Vancouver, the iPhone – of several devices – fell first, in a mere 20 seconds. They do this in a few seconds, seemingly, and the world press goes "Ooh! Ah! Apple stuff is not safe!"
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Even I only have this stuff installed to review, to be honest, or I wouldn't bother.īut while it may be tempting to scoff at these security efforts, we would all be laughing out the other sides of our faces (which I don't actually know how to do) if a nasty virus did manifest itself in our little cosy, comfortable Mac computing world.Īnother Big Scary Thing for us Mac users is events like CanSecWest where celebrity hackers (how can there even be such people?) compete to crack iPhone, Safari, OS X etc. There can't be much money in Mac security software if no one's making Mac viruses. Despite many Mac users not bothering to install or run anti-malware software. You have to hand it to these companies – they really do seem to keep improving and releasing newer, better versions of their anti-virus tools for Macs. Yet another entry into the flashy, powerful Mac antivirus arsenal is Intego VirusBarrier X6.
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