More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet

alc59 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:39 am **(#1)**

more then 600,000 Macs infected with flashback botnet

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12851

Not just for Windows anymore I see.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Switch to Linux

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:24 am **(#4)**

molly wrote:

Switch to Linux

Seems to work well for me too

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:54 am **(#6)**

ico4498 · **Joined:** Jun 04, 2011 **Posts:** 84

but, but, but ... macs are invulnerable ... right?

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:27 am **(#8)**

http://m.gizmodo.com/5899352/mac-flashb ... 0-infected

pulled from twitter feed

ZWard117 · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2012 **Posts:** 583

I am sorry but this is friggen hilarious! Finally the comment "Macs are invulnerable!" has been rendered useless! LOLOLOLOL. I am sorry also for trolling in advance.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12851

Being double sandboxed pretty much protects me except from myself of course; no such thing as perfect protection, but I'm pretty happy with my security setup. I laugh at drivebys (and around a year ago, got hit by one from mediamilitia which I got my skulls clipart from). That's the real secret that nobody (well not enough) are sharing. You have to browse and do anything online sandboxed; anti-virus programs are just not good by themselves and are a waste of resources if you don't sandbox and firewall (Windows firewall's been good enough for me; use to use zone alarm but got tired of Windows updates screwing up zone alarm so just kept using Windows firewall).

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:57 pm **(#11)**

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Apple maintains its own version of Java, and as with this release, it has typically fallen unacceptably far behind Oracle in patching critical flaws in this heavily-targeted and cross-platform application. In 2009, I examined Apple's patch delays on Java and found that the company patched Java flaws on average about six months after official releases were made... link

Waiting 6 months to patch a security flaw, after the flaw has been made public, is crazy. Any would be hacker or script kiddie could easily fashion a virus AFTER the exploit is public. I'm currently Java free and considering Apple's policy, I believe I'd just dump Java, unless I really needed it.