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Angered by Apple Delay, Hacker Posts Mac Java Attack

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A security researcher has posted attack code that exploits a long-standing security problem in OS X. The sad part is, no one cares enough to use it.

The software, which could be used by hackers to run an unauthorized system on a Mac, was posted Tuesday by Landon Fuller, a security researcher in San Francisco. It exploits a nasty bug in the Java software that ships with Mac OS X. This bug was fixed by Java's creator, Sun Microsystems, on Dec. 3, but Apple has still not included the fix in its software updates.
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Pretiacruento said:
I wonder if Apple fanbois will get second thoughts after reading stuff like this... :p
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lol taken from TUAW

Pleeeeeeze. Enough with the security holes already. How many Macs are actually affected by this? None. Half these security "threats" we hear about are nothing more than proofs of concepts, and no code has actually even been written to exploit then yet. So when that day comes, then I'd agree with the sense of urgency.
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lol
 
No one bothers to waste time on them when they can easily make win7 botnets from infected iso :D
 
No one bothers about attacking a mac.

Like GJSNeptune once said

Well yeah. A suicide bomber isn't gonna blow himself up in the middle of Siberia either.
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but apples are completely hack proof and virus proof, and idiot proof, and they never freeze and they are perfect godly machines and why would you ever pretend to find something wrong with them when it is quite impossible for anything to ever be found wrong with them?
 
If they were to fix an exploit then they could no longer deny the existance of one. I can see the comercials now, the Apple guy gets a cold, but has no cold medicine to help him get better, then he falls over dead with the last words on his breath being, I am not sick!
 
I own a macbook and I also have 2 other PC's, both of which run Windows 7 and the other runs windows Vista. Personally I love windows 7 over my mac, I like the interface a lot.

It amuses me that mac can screw up lots and it doesn't touch the mac fanboys. I bought a mac because I was curious how well they actually were. Personally mine has frozen up once so far and that's it. Both of my desktop computers have had the same experience, none have crashed, but might have frozen a year ago or so. Can't even remember when I had to deal with a computer issue on my windows machines.

I put Vista 64 on my macbook, but according to apple you can't. There disk provides the correct drivers for it, but they want you to own a macbook pro in order to do so. All you have to do is put 2 commands in the run command once in vista 64 and it will install the drivers for you. If Windows did something like that people would be bashing them forever, but Apple does it and no one seems to care. It's just amusing to me

There are a few things on the mac that I really like, but same with windows. Honestly there very much similar, except that my desktop PC's do run 3rd party apps much better than a mac. Put firefox in my macbook, opening it takes it a few seconds, windows machines opens it in 1 second. Pretty sad that any 3rd party application on a macbook runs like shit at the start.

Anyway those are my 2 cents, still like my macbook, but I recognize the faults that it has.
 
Funny how all those Mac loving tech blogs are not reporting this.... Knock Knock Engadget? Gizmodo? Damn I love my MBP and OSX, but if Apple needs to get their fact straight now.
 
amdownzintel said:
I own a macbook and I also have 2 other PC's, both of which run Windows 7 and the other runs windows Vista. Personally I love windows 7 over my mac, I like the interface a lot.

It amuses me that mac can screw up lots and it doesn't touch the mac fanboys. I bought a mac because I was curious how well they actually were. Personally mine has frozen up once so far and that's it. Both of my desktop computers have had the same experience, none have crashed, but might have frozen a year ago or so. Can't even remember when I had to deal with a computer issue on my windows machines.

I put Vista 64 on my macbook, but according to apple you can't. There disk provides the correct drivers for it, but they want you to own a macbook pro in order to do so. All you have to do is put 2 commands in the run command once in vista 64 and it will install the drivers for you. If Windows did something like that people would be bashing them forever, but Apple does it and no one seems to care. It's just amusing to me

There are a few things on the mac that I really like, but same with windows. Honestly there very much similar, except that my desktop PC's do run 3rd party apps much better than a mac. Put firefox in my macbook, opening it takes it a few seconds, windows machines opens it in 1 second. Pretty sad that any 3rd party application on a macbook runs like shit at the start.

Anyway those are my 2 cents, still like my macbook, but I recognize the faults that it has.
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Tiger was solid as a rock. I really wish I'd kept it and skipped Leopard. Since Leopard performance has suffered noticeably. Battery life lost at least 30 min. over Tiger, and stability hasn't been good. I don't think Safari ever crashed once the first year I owned my Macbook with Tiger. With Leopord Safari freezes a few times a week, sometimes locking up the whole computer. Often Force quit won't even come up and I have to do a hard reset. I like several of Leopard's new features, mainly the instant preview. I use that EVERY DAY or I would've just put Tiger back on a long time ago. OSX is a great student OS, but that's the only reason I would buy a Mac really, is for school. At home and work it's all PC.

Although I'm not really worried about every little strand of malicious code released for Mac or Windows. Hopefully I'm not a big enough target for stuff like that yet.
 
People are entirely missing out on the malware OSX market. How many mac users could fix something themselves?

Once you get under the hood, it's much easier to trash a *nix system than it is a windows system. Getting rid of viruses on a mac wouldn't be a simple install of a few anti-viruses and spybot and running scans in safe mode.

Those kind of tools shouldn't exist, or they should be of low quality (as no one's bothered to make any major attacks on OSX yet).

I'd imagine that even if it's a lower market share, it'd be made up in the fact that it'd stay on there for a long time. I'd also think that most users (my brother and sister come to mind) wouldn't care if there were a few ads popped up as long as they fit the rest of the OSX GUI.
 
Well well well, look what I got in my OS X Software Update!!! A Java patch!!!

Thanks Apple... that took a while...
 
My boss is a big mac geek and most of our edit machines here are macs.. and here's what I have to tell you guys.

There is NO reason to address issues about viruses or bugs.. just like every program on the mac.. it's designed to just completely disappear when theres an error!. That's right.. no blue screens, no error messages.. it just DISAPPEARS off the face of the desktop! So what's the point of fixing it??
 
Ehren8879 said:
How bad would a widespread OSX virus hurt Apple's image right now?
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Pretty bad. I'd be interested in hearing some of the fanboy excuses for a widespread virus.

Think about it folks... Mac users have been brainwashed with the mantra that Macs are virus-proof. So they run with absolutely not a single thought or care about viruses. That in addition to the lack of security in place on their systems, and you've got an instant botnet with very little effort.
 
TechieSooner said:
Pretty bad. I'd be interested in hearing some of the fanboy excuses for a widespread virus.

Think about it folks... Mac users have been brainwashed with the mantra that Macs are virus-proof. So they run with absolutely not a single thought or care about viruses. That in addition to the lack of security in place on their systems, and you've got an instant botnet with very little effort.
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Well since none of them feel it's necessary to run antivirus, 99% of of them probably wouldn't know they actually had a virus for months. Just like with spyware and such, most of the time there aren't any blatant signs, an error here or a little longer loading there, but unless you are anal about checking your processes, you won't know till it's way too late and it really messes your machine up.

Hell, the fanboys would probably exclaim how they never got a virus, even if their machine was screaming at them to disinfect it.
 
Yea, but I'd think the first virus that gets passed around on a Mac would be something like Conficker that detonates at a set date with some sort of message about the beloved Mac security being laughable... Could be wrong, but I really don't think the first one would be used for gain by the person writing it, Mac still doesn't have enough of an install base to bother with something that big.
 
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