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Apple Employees' Macs Compromised by Chinese Hackers
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And when will APPLE identified WiFi problem that iPhone 4S users have!
I'm simply not happy any more with Apple and so much bugs...
What are they doing now... Nothing except fixing some bugs and let the users walk around with phone without WiFi and without bluetooth.
...and yes! I did everything, from restoring, updating, going to APPLE store, contacting APPLE and etc...
I'm simply not happy any more with Apple and so much bugs...
What are they doing now... Nothing except fixing some bugs and let the users walk around with phone without WiFi and without bluetooth.
...and yes! I did everything, from restoring, updating, going to APPLE store, contacting APPLE and etc...
A computer is only as secure as the software you run on it. You could have some of the most secure networks in the world, but if you have one program that is buggy and full of holes, then guess what, you are vulnerable. Java, like flash, has outlived its usefulness and needs to be retired....
I don't say that....
I just say" in now more than 20 years on the mac platform I have always had whatever flavour virus protection was available. In all those years, I have had two files identified as virus/malware whatever. They were on my bootcamp partition.
Java is the number one exploit vector for "hacked" websites to invade a personal computer, not Flash or the browser itself, these days.
And there are Mac-specific exploit app kits to turn your Mac into a node of a botnet and send all your personal info to hackers in eastern Europe/Russia/China.
Don't install Java unless you actually need it, and if it is installed, disable the Java plugin in your browser at the very least.
And no, you don't need to install some third-party video codec to view some "content" you found online, that's probably a trojan horse/virus/rootkit you are being tricked into installing.
And there are Mac-specific exploit app kits to turn your Mac into a node of a botnet and send all your personal info to hackers in eastern Europe/Russia/China.
Don't install Java unless you actually need it, and if it is installed, disable the Java plugin in your browser at the very least.
And no, you don't need to install some third-party video codec to view some "content" you found online, that's probably a trojan horse/virus/rootkit you are being tricked into installing.
Fortunately Google and the Android fans are hard at work wresting us from the Chinese and giving us to the Koreans instead.
They apparently are not Kapersky....
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/...s-behind-microsoft-in-terms-of-security/11706
As if you care if a particular Windows threat is because of Windows itself rather than something else.
The New York Times article linked above provides some of the details of how they traced the attacks back to one Shanghai neighborhood. It's a really good read, much more detailed than the NPR story I linked. The evidence for the source of the attacks is not irrefutable, but strongly circumstantial.
Imagine that! No more cyber attacks. It will be snail mail between the R&D center and the PLA headquarters.
Did they seriously just say that?
Right, because hackers could NEVER figure out how to make off with data without anyone knowing it.
Just disconnect China from the internet at this point, no real downside. Less spam, less malware.
I don't have Java on my iMac. Never had, and don't plan on it in the future. Hopefully the software from Apple will continue to be un-compromised.
In the 90s it was the Japanese we were terrified of (to this day Japan owns roughly as much US debt as China, both around 7%).
In hindsight the Japanese are much more benevolent rivals than the Chinese. Weird how democracy works that way.
And why on Earth were Apple employees using Java on their Macs?
As I've explained many times before, this is an irrelevant client-side technology that no one should be using anymore (apart from a tiny minority of obsolete/lazy websites, of course).
As I've explained many times before, this is an irrelevant client-side technology that no one should be using anymore (apart from a tiny minority of obsolete/lazy websites, of course).