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Previously on "Buy a Mac and say goodbye to patching Windows"
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Originally posted by mcquiggdFunny how the one article you didn't mention the 'publication date' for was... published yesterday....
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm
4 more bugs fixed - found by the Month of Apple Bugs website.
MOAB - Nice to see someone paying attention to the flaws in other OS / applications instead of smugly deriding Microsoft.Last edited by Sysman; 17 February 2007, 11:28.
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If you go to the MOAB website you'll see that at least some of those bugs are actually in 3rd party applications - OmniWeb, VLC, APE, Flip4Mac (which is actually an MS product for Mac). Number 6 is even a "design flaw" in the current PDF specifiation.Last edited by Cowboy Bob; 17 February 2007, 12:44.
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Funny how the one article you didn't mention the 'publication date' for was... published yesterday....
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm
4 more bugs fixed - found by the Month of Apple Bugs website.
MOAB - Nice to see someone paying attention to the flaws in other OS / applications instead of smugly deriding Microsoft.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn
"The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms.… If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems, regarding security vulnerabilities," said Archibald.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9285954,00.htm
Apple issued four security updates on Thursday to fix flaws in Mac OS X and iChat identified by the Month of Apple Bugs project.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739432.stm
Experts have uncovered a serious security hole in the way Apple software handles downloaded files.
The flaw could give malicious attackers a back door into Mac computers if users visit carefully crafted websites and download booby-trapped files.
I could go on, there seems to be hundreds of flaws. If it wasn't for the fact that no one uses Macs, I think you'd find it has more holes than a Swiss cheese.
No doubt it's all Microsofts fault.Last edited by Sysman; 17 February 2007, 04:59.
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Originally posted by Cowboy BobI was just shooting down DPs argument that Windows has more exploits because it's more popular.
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Originally posted by ratewhoreThe statistic used to be there were more defaced sites run on Apache then IIS, however, this is due to the number of sites run on Apache/Linux, rather than the number of Apache/Linux boxes v IIS boxes.
Mind you, the statistic has probably changed since I last looked...
Unless of course you have PHP installed, but then that's one giant bug in itself...
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Originally posted by bogeymanApache of course! But I don't see that that proves all OSS is pure goodness and all proprietary software is buggy, insecure tulipe.
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The statistic used to be there were more defaced sites run on Apache then IIS, however, this is due to the number of sites run on Apache/Linux, rather than the number of Apache/Linux boxes v IIS boxes.
Mind you, the statistic has probably changed since I last looked...
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Originally posted by Cowboy Bobwhich has a track history of being most secure, Apache or IIS?
I'm no fan of IIS, but unfortunately, I often have to work with it, as that's what's used on most corporate intranets.
Apache dominates on the Internet but not in the intranet environment where you need your webserver to interop reliably with SQL Server, Sharepoint, Exchange and all that other MS stuff.
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A security vulnerability is not the same as a virus.
How many actual (ie not 'concept') OSX viruses/spyware etc exist?Last edited by interested; 16 February 2007, 14:02.
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First of all you quote this:-
The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms
But since Apache has a much greater market share in terms of Internet facing servers (Intranets don't count in this case), how does the "it isn't cool" argument work?
Either people are targetting the most popular platform or they're not.
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It's not "cool" to attack open source.
99.99% of malicious hackers target Microsoft. If the hacking community turned on Apache or Linux, voila, another Swiss Cheese.
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Apart from the fact that anyone who is complacent enough to think that there are no security vulnerabilities right now in their chosen OS, whatever it is, is an idiot, that market share thing is something that can be proven wrong with just one example - which has a track history of being most secure, Apache or IIS?
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