Mac users warned of growing virus threat

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.techworld.com/security/3245158/mac-users-warned-of-growing-virus-threat/

By John E Dunn 
Techworld
21 October 10

Attacks on the Mac are now significant enough to warrant Apple users 
investing in an anti-virus product, security company Panda Security said 
as it launched a new product that offers such protection.

Marketing spin to harvest the Apple economy or justified caution? Panda 
points to the numbers. There are now 5,000 ‘strains’ of malware that 
target the Mac and the company says it is seeing 500 new Mac-specific 
samples appearing every month.

In 2009, 34 vulnerabilities were detected in Apple’s OS X, which had 
risen to 175 so far for 2010, with a 20-year total of 170,000 macros 
‘viruses’ affecting the platform.

To be clear, such security threats relate only to Apple desktop and 
laptop computers and not iPads of iPhones, which are only vulnerable if 
they have been ‘jailbroken’ or if, somehow, a rogue app breaks through 
the approval process.

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