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Archives: March 2005

Mon Mar, 21 2005

REALLY? - Australian IT - Hackers loose worms on Apple (Chris Jenkins, MARCH 22, 2005)

I was just alerted by Google's News Alert email service that hackers have released worms into the wild that attack Mac OS X. Hmm, until I read the article and discover that nothing of the sort has happened, despite the explicitly-worded headline. I'm sure Chris Jenkins will gather a lot of page hits for Australian IT's website, but anyone who knows how to read will realize the headline was completely false.

Not only have no worms for Mac OS X (Apple's operating system) been released, he even describes that non-worm attacks have been increasing on OTHER operating systems. Basically, he points out that security vulnerabilities have been discovered by a company that sells security products (and FIXED by Apple). There are no successful attacks described, and certainly nowhere in the article is a Mac OS X-attacking worm described. Therefore, the headline seems to be indicating some fantasy alternate universe in Chris Jenkins mind, not the article it precedes.

Australian IT (what is the IT supposed to mean, one wonders):
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12618742^15331^^nbv^15306-15319,00.html

Posted by: Krioni on Mar 21, 05 | 10:34 am | Profile

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