Posted on 12/18/2014 7:38:04 AM PST by Star Traveler
Apple for Sony ...
Macs rarely get infected because hardly anyone uses them seriously beyond creatives and school kids. If they ever take any significant market share for businesses, the hacking and viruses will follow.
You know, people keep trotting that old canard out, but despite heavy growth in Mac adoption, especially among the higher-end users (where the money is), it just hasn’t happened. The underlying Unix security model has a lot to do with it.
4th year with an iMac.
Zero issues.
Sorry folks but there are plenty of Mac viruses out there and Macs get hacked all the time. The days of Macs flying under the radar are long gone.
Oh come on , Obama gave up the back door to who ever ,because he knew(NSA) Sony staff were making fun of him
The same system that is on Macintosh computers is on iPhones and iPads, in a scaled down version, suitable for their size and also for touch screens. They don’t have those problems ... :-) ...
Yes, but if a virus wants to install itself on a Mac, it has to ask the user to type in the administrative password. Many of them do, since they’re not skilled Unix system administrators.
Businesses that eschew Mac’s because of the added cost would be well served to re-evaluate their cost model. When you factor in security and administration costs, I’d bet the MS malware portal that is called Windows becomes less attractive.
Never get in between Apple cultist and their need to grab onto every flimsy thing to pretend like that companies stuff in infallible.
It’s called a competent IT department, inadequate security software, and staff that arent allowed to do stupid things.
Sticking a bunch of Macs in front of them, because they are from Apple, isnt going to defeat hackers. If a company wants to buy a bunch of apple stuff, and completely fire their IT department thinking that somehow they are now magically safe, then they should let investors know first so they can sell.
Sony’s IT department was lazy, and did not engage in even the most basic security protocols. They got what they deserved.
There are zero Mac viruses. There are Trojans, which require a user’s cooperation in some way, shape, or form, but there is a big difference between virus and trojan.
‘stuck in 1992’, eh?
ok .... questions ...
1. what year did Japanese sony start buying American entertainment enterprisses?
2. what year did sony manage to buy out NBC?
As i see it, ‘somebody’ wanted to ‘reset’ sony, to a timeframe before all of that nonsense.
A problem that is easily solved by not giving end users administrator access.
Been using Macs since the early 80’s, for our small business and personal use - never have had a virus - and neither have any of my adult children who use Macs.
Never needed IT for help either.
You apparently do not know what you don’t know!
My guess is that you have no personal experience with Macs, but desperately want what you think you know to be true.
Depends on how tightly you want to control the corporate environment. If you allow people to connect the devices they personally own to the corporate network, then you can’t have this kind of control. If you say they must use a locked-down, corporate-issued computer, employees will get upset over not being able to install software and otherwise do whatever they want.
There have been two vulnerabilities on OS X in recent months. “Poodle” which was an SSL issue and BASH which was an issue with the shell program. Those aside, you are correct in that the security model is much better in Linux/Unix/ OS X
Is there any information out there on how the hackers broke in? Seems they are still at a complete loss for what happened (or they aren’t saying because the FBI is after the hackers.)
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