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Apple Employees' Macs Compromised by Chinese Hackers
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No data left apple....Yea right.
Data stolen fom apple: "we're number one, we are número UNO!"
Just like State-sponsored US cyber/covert operations against "friendly" and "evil" countries out there...just ask the CIA. The only difference is which side you support.
Java is a runtime environment with access to the host system they say. One with many flaws say. And one that can be embedded by any sketchy website they say.
Disable the Java browser plugin (Applications->Utilities->Java Preferences->Untick Enable applet plug-in and Web Start applications) and move on?
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Security Professional Here.
Technically this is a Java vulnerability not some new OS X 0-day like you constantly see with Windows. Java has always been insecure--that's not Apple's fault.
The '80s was Japan's big moment. At that time many people were convinced that Japan had figured it all out, but by the early '90s the Japanese economy was falling into a recession from which they never really recovered. I don't see where benevolence has much to do with it. As for the Chinese, it isn't totally clear what they are stealing, or why. Trying to gain control over power grids and oil pipelines may require hacking into corporate systems, but obviously this isn't entirely about industrial espionage, or maybe not at all.
And you will end up with US companies information and their product's blueprints.
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lol
What gets me is this...
If you have read anything about the NSA(Read "Body of Secrets", forget the author, a great read)... Its supposedly the most massive aggregation of data storage and computing power in the planet. They can read every e-mail, phone conversation and credit card purchase you make (around the WORLD) and actually they supposedly installed a new system that checks purchase patterns even with cash and then the system alerts the concerned people. All transatlantic internet/voice cables exit the sea shore and into AT&T offices where NSA siphons off all the traffic in parallel for analysis. And so on and on....
Then there is this immense brain power. NSA employs the largest number of mathematicians in the world.
With all this power, why can't NSA thwart these hackers? Do they think its child's play and beneath them? If they do, then its about time they got in the game and gave the Chinese hackers a taste of sweet and sour,IP packets.
If you have read anything about the NSA(Read "Body of Secrets", forget the author, a great read)... Its supposedly the most massive aggregation of data storage and computing power in the planet. They can read every e-mail, phone conversation and credit card purchase you make (around the WORLD) and actually they supposedly installed a new system that checks purchase patterns even with cash and then the system alerts the concerned people. All transatlantic internet/voice cables exit the sea shore and into AT&T offices where NSA siphons off all the traffic in parallel for analysis. And so on and on....
Then there is this immense brain power. NSA employs the largest number of mathematicians in the world.
With all this power, why can't NSA thwart these hackers? Do they think its child's play and beneath them? If they do, then its about time they got in the game and gave the Chinese hackers a taste of sweet and sour,IP packets.
If the Chinese government is doing this then this discussion is going to wind up in the PRSI forums.
yeah, I remember reading Michael Crichton's 'Rising Sun' about 20 years ago and how it laid out how America would regret selling so much debt and it's corporate soul to Japan as they would use that leverage and corporate espionage to own America one day.
Can we just separate China from the rest of the internet?
They do nothing except hack others. My company has already banned all Chinese ips since all they do is try to hack our systems all day.
Let them have their great firewall.
They do nothing except hack others. My company has already banned all Chinese ips since all they do is try to hack our systems all day.
Let them have their great firewall.
Nobody (well, nobody rational) says unhackable. Just that the likelihood was much, much, much lower than Windows machines. It would be like me saying "my neighborhood has been so safe for years that I feel comfortable leaving my doors unlocked all the time". I didn't say my house can't be broken into, just that it has never happened and therefore I don't worry about it.
However, inevitably, once the first few break-ins start, people will start to take more precautions. It's only sensible.
Me too, and it hasn't affected me at all. There are pockets of people who will get very upset at you for suggesting this is the solution though, since apparently Java is needed for some people to access their work environments or banking clients.
Wait, I missed that! Who said what?
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It makes one wonder why people even bother using Dropbox anymore. There's already a copy in the cloud!
