Two hacker reportedly broke into a MacBook Pro laptop at the CanSecWest group discussion in Canada by exploiting a antecedently unknown flaw in the Safari World Wide Web web web browser , according to theSecurity FixandZero Dayblogs .
Mac OS X has a impregnable reputation for certificate , so on the surface this sounds like a big deal . But while a zero - day flaw in a democratic entanglement web browser is nothing to ignore , this particular episode is no surprise . None at all .
That ’s because there ’s no such affair as a nag - test copy operating system . And $ 10,000 plus a laptop computer — the reward for the cyberpunk for the successful break - in — provide more than enough motivator to recover the inevitable hole .
After all , it’sold newsthat most all the feat and malware you see out there today are put out for money . And there are cakehole to be found in Mac OS X and every other OS , like thebatch of flawsthat Apple just patched .
But while Apple may not be absolutely secure , Windows XP will keep its dubious crownwork as pet cyberpunk target for two reasons .
First , of track , a ton of people use it . So an online fire that exploit a Windows defect has a better chance of infecting many more computers . But even ifApple ’s Mac v. PC commercialstake fire in the popular vision and leave everyone to switch from XP to Mac OS X , there ’s still the issue of respectable surety design .
XP has some boneheaded fundamental design flaws that make it easy for hackers to take over a machine once they do kick downstairs in . The most important being that everyone ( myself included ) runs XP as an admin user , because it ’s far too annoying to do otherwise . But doing so means that a successful Web blast can do anything it want on your estimator . ( I wrote antecedently about some way tomitigate this trouble . )
Microsoft tried to define this gawp security system hole with Vista’sUser Account Control , and there are other change which may make things at least a slight more of a challenge for online thug targeting Vista . We ’ll see how much the security measure measures help .
In the lag , do n’t get your hope up for a open frame from XP attacks , Apple hemipteron or no Apple bug .
