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Title: Is Apple's OS X security honeymoon ending? Post by: HCK on October 17, 2015, 03:00:12 am Is Apple's OS X security honeymoon ending?
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Apple scored unforgettable hits against Microsoft with its Mac vs. PC ads, which anthropomorphized Windows as a sneezing, miserable office worker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb_Q8WRL_g). </p><p>Security experts always knew that the campaign was a clever bit of marketing fluff, one that allowed Apple to capitalize on Microsoft’s painful, years-long security revamp.</p><p>The landscape is changing, however. Apple’s market share of desktop computers is nearing 17 percent. OS X, Apple’s operating system, is popular with consumers and enterprises now, making it a more interesting target for hackers.</p><p>A report (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2459197-bit9-carbon-black-threat-research-report-2015.html) to be released on Thursday by the security company Bit9 + Carbon Black (https://www.bit9.com/) shows that more malware has been found this year for OS X than in the last five years combined.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2993302/security/is-apples-security-honeymoon-on-os-x-ending.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Is Apple's OS X security honeymoon ending? (http://www.macworld.com/article/2993302/security/is-apples-security-honeymoon-on-os-x-ending.html#tk.rss_all) |