Mac insecurity

Posted by jerry as Security

As friends of mine well know, I work in the information security industry.  I’ve had many opportunities over the past few years to hear from more than a few Mac users about how much more secure things would be if we all just switched to Macs.  It is just like the debate that was had about windows and linux.  There are exploitable vulnerabilities in almost everything – Mac OS, Linux, Windows, etc, etc.  The reality is that the motives for finding and exploiting those vulnerabilities is largely financial.  As a “bad guy”, you don’t want to spend lots of effort creating malware to run on computers that only 2% of people have – no, you want to write for the masses, so you as much money as possible.  I heard recently that Macs creapt from 2% to 3% market share.  All I can say is that the current spate of Mac commercials are going to look pretty funny whilest in the middle of a series of day 0 vulnerabilities.  Welcome to the club.