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Phishing Attack Pivots to Mac After Windows Browser Defenses Improve
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Brave. I think you meant to say Brave 😜
I hope not. They put suspicious emails into a junk folder so I don’t think this would violate user privacy.
I use it on my Apple Machines because it supports iCloud Keychain Password generation when creating new accounts
I’m genuinely surprised so many people don’t like Safari. I’ve tried all the browsers and they all seem to be broadly the same. I’ve not had any problems with Safari so far.
I’ve been thinking about getting Bitdefender (paid) for my parents and in-laws, it has extra protection that the free versions don’t have.
This is what security researchers consider “sophisticated”? Sheesh!
There ARE no viruses on a Mac. However, there’s a part of the computer between the keyboard and the chair that can install whatever they want, including malware.
A Mac sitting there, without that troublesome security risk piece will not become infected by rogue software.
No, there’s a problem with people. It’s always people.
About every year for the last 10 or maybe 15 years some (obscure) security firm (most of which nobody ever heard from) is screaming something in the area of “Macs are now targeted more and more”, yet we still have to see something that really affects a large share of the Mac community. Of course we’ve seen some malware inside cracked software or the HandBrake incident, but those all affect a really small number of people.
So this is just another company that wants attention with 20 year old news. Time to ignore them.
So this is just another company that wants attention with 20 year old news. Time to ignore them.
Because a lot of people love Chrome; it's a fine piece of Spyware.
Meaning that no viruses can automatically install on a Mac (unless the stupid user installs it).
Unlike Windows, where viruses would spread quickly.
How is Apple's marketshare "booming"? Apple consistently holds about 8-9% marketshare, with 2024's 9.2% down a bit from 2022's 9.8%.
Are you paid to write this, or does over reacting come naturally?
You know....direct dial with a 56k modem to Compuserve sounds a lot safer than that fancy-pants "Internet". /s
(I do kind'a miss those modem "handshake" sounds)
(I do kind'a miss those modem "handshake" sounds)
“Viruses”, as we had in the 80’s and 90’s are a thing of the past. Even worms are not common anymore.
Today, the only “infection vector” are Trojan horses, but users have to willingly install them. I’ve seen “drive-by downloads”, but still haven’t seen stealth app installers on the Mac.
I might be wrong, though.
Anyway, I don’t download anything from sites I don’t trust. If anything is ever downloaded “automatically”, I just trash the files without opening them.
I guess this is pretty much common sense…
I have an older relative (well into her 90s) who fell for one of these on her MacBook and forked over her credit card number. 😱 She was able to get the charge reversed, and I got it through to her that if she ever sees a weird message like that she should just close the lid of the machine and call me so I can remote into the machine and see what's up.
It's actually still fair. The Mac has a half decent mandatory access control framework unlike UAC on windows. Once something is downloaded and executed as you it doesn't have access to everything immediately unlike on windows where it's game over.
You can't auto install malware on Win 10 or Win 11, without the user okaying it, either. Users for all computers will still do it.
