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Windows virus threatens 170-year-old Toldeo newspaper's perfect record, Apple Macs sa

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Windows virus threatens 170-year-old Toldeo newspaper's perfect record, Apple Macs save the day

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 12:06 AM EST



"Newspaper editors for a century have called each day's paper 'The Daily Miracle,' in tribute to all the things that have to happen before it ends up on your doorstep. But nine days ago, high-tech disaster struck the newspaper. For a moment, it looked like there was a real possibility that The Blade would not be able to publish a paper for - what other day could be more appropriate - Friday, Jan. 13. Yet they did," Jack Lessenberry reports for The Toledo Blade.

"'It truly was a miracle that we published The Blade that morning, and we did it all working together,' said Kurt Franck, Blade managing editor. What happened was that the newspaper was ambushed by a high-tech varmint. Despite firewalls and other protective systems, a deadly computer virus broke through and hit the newspaper's network shortly before 10 a.m. on Jan. 12. Within a short period of time, almost nothing was working. The Blade was cut off from the Internet, from e-mail, and from much of its own material," Lessenberry reports. "The Blade's first edition was published on Dec. 19, 1835. One hundred and seventy years later, a high-tech criminal tried to do something that civil wars and epidemics have failed to do - prevent The Blade from putting out a paper."

"Staffers from different departments worked together side by side. People kept their tempers and worked far into the night. Most of The Blade's computers wouldn't talk to each other, but the newspaper's MacIntoshes were immune to the virus," Lessenberry reports. "In the end, the Macs and the flash drives saved the day. The paper got off the presses three hours late, but it was printed - and delivered."

"Though computer experts were called in to start working on fixing the sabotage, problems persisted for several days, and the expensive and tedious task of cleaning and disinfecting each individual computer terminal is still under way," Lessenberry reports. "The virus took a heavy financial toll on The Blade, Mr. Zerbey said; the paper lost many thousands of dollars in advertising alone that it was unable to publish. But it will lead to better security systems. "We're setting up a disaster recovery room that will be manned at all times with computers that are immune to viruses," Mr. Zerbey said. The Blade's internal network will also be cleaned and strengthened."
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It might happen to the mac soon though

Hey,
I was just on digg, and thought that i would share an article that I read on there. It is about how mac os has some security issues. Take a read, this type of thing might happen on a mac sooner than later! Maybe not a virus but an attack of some sort, and not to this company inperticular.
Ancent flaws leave OS X Vulnerable
 
jocool5 said:
Hey,
I was just on digg, and thought that i would share an article that I read on there. It is about how mac os has some security issues. Take a read, this type of thing might happen on a mac sooner than later! Maybe not a virus but an attack of some sort, and not to this company inperticular.
Ancent flaws leave OS X Vulnerable
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Biggest load of testicles i've ever wasted my time reading :p
 
yellow said:
10 to 15 years ago? And no one has discovered it in *BSD? Until this guy found it in OS X? :rolleyes:
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Agreed. I may be mistaken, but isn't OSX a unix distro for all practical purposes? Isn't Unix supposed to be more stable and secure than any other OS out there? There's something fishy about what that guy said. He pointed out only two or three security flaws. If he's so good at finding them, maybe he should take a look at Win XP....... Is it just me or does that guy sound like he's on M$'s payroll?
 
white89gt said:
Agreed. I may be mistaken, but isn't OSX a unix distro for all practical purposes? Isn't Unix supposed to be more stable and secure than any other OS out there? There's something fishy about what that guy said. He pointed out only two or three security flaws. If he's so good at finding them, maybe he should take a look at Win XP....... Is it just me or does that guy sound like he's on M$'s payroll?
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I think after consulting my professors and the comp sci department I think that he is full of crap but there are programs that can exploit the thing he said about the programs deleting crutial information.
 
"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."

What a load of bull! A lot worse than Windows? I think not...
 
jocool5 said:
Hey,
I was just on digg, and thought that i would share an article that I read on there. It is about how mac os has some security issues. Take a read, this type of thing might happen on a mac sooner than later! Maybe not a virus but an attack of some sort, and not to this company inperticular.
Ancent flaws leave OS X Vulnerable
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I love the point that "Apple software is less secure because they don't use the same practices as Microsoft".

WTF? Hello?
 
It's all FUD. How many MS exploites have been documented? Compared to how many OS X exploits? Compare each system to see how many exploits ahve actually happened? What's that? ZERO TO ??????????????????

The guy is full of ****, and anyone who talks like him should be beaten to death over days for such stupidity. I get sick of all these Winblows fanboys talking **** because they "think" they know better. When in all reality they couldn't be more wrong. Someone give me a license to kill. I promise to rid the world of 50% of its stupidity by 2007.

Bring an OS X virus on. Just try. I guarentee it's being tried and no one can get it to work. It's called NOT BEING WINDOWS.
 
What an <...> hole! BSD is the most secure (out of the box) OS out there! Personally, I prefer Linux. It's a little easier to manage. On the PC, anyway. :rolleyes:

The first article posted is awesome, btw. I need to show it to some of my Mac/Unix hating friends.
 
Anyone notice he said that Mac OS X had a lower market-share than Unix? Correct me if I am wrong but I do believe that Mac OS X has 4-5 times the market share of Unix. That just shows he either doesn't know the facts or is purposefully bending them.
 
yippy said:
Anyone notice he said that Mac OS X had a lower market-share than Unix? Correct me if I am wrong but I do believe that Mac OS X has 4-5 times the market share of Unix. That just shows he either doesn't know the facts or is purposefully bending them.
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Depends on your market. In the server market, OS-X has a tiny foot-print.
 
I guess he was lumping all flavors of UNIX into one? If so.. why not lump OS X in there.. Darwin IS (a) UNIX (flavor)?
 
yellow said:
I guess he was lumping all flavors of UNIX into one? If so.. why not lump OS X in there.. Darwin IS (a) UNIX (flavor)?
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I agree, OS-X is a *NIX platform, and I wish it could be more recognized as such. Come to that I wish other *NIX companies could take a look at what Apple has done with *NIX rather than continue to try and make Linux more like Windows. If I want windows I'll buy it from MS, I chose OS-X because I DON'T WANT WINDOWS!
 
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