Wild PC-Mac foursomes with vibrating iPhones may lead to an overdue comeuppance for all of us.
For years Mac users have remained smug and secure in the knowledge that Windows users were suckers.
To date Mac users have been largely immune from such attacks. But are Macs safer from computer viruses because of better design or simply because, until recently, so few people actually owned them that hackers didn’t bother?
With over 90% of global market share, Windows has long been the target of choice for would-be hackers looking to wreak havoc or profit with viruses and spyware. Now, with Apple sales taking off, hackers are starting to target Apple products, software, and that most ubiquitous of all hipster shoulder bag stuffers, the iPhone.
"There are more eyes looking over Apple products for vulnerabilities," Hotchkies told AFP at a notorious annual DefCon gathering of hackers in Las Vegas.
"It has slowly been growing as a target people are more and more interested in."
"There are a lot more people getting into it and really getting their hands dirty," said Hotchkies, who noted an obvious spike this year in the number of DefCon attendees toting Macintosh laptops.
"I've been seeing a lot of reverse engineering on the Apple platform."
Ironically enough, part of this new fangled infection risk began when Apple started whoring itself out to run Windows.
"Windows developers take their code and make it work on Apple," Hotchkies said. "They could take potential vulnerabilities with them or possibly create new ones because they are working on an entirely different platform."
Something to think about the next time you download that a season of The Wire from Piratebay.
Via Breitbart.
-written by our fill-in blogger, Byron Dafoe
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