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People run out of petrol in cars, people get flat tyres because they dont check tyre pressures. They will also click through a message that looks like it is from Apple or Microsoft telling them they are found a security problem and click this button to apply the fix.
Have you ever believed a lie that one of your friends or acquaintences. Same thing happens in computers. I wanted to go to particular website, suddenly a message pops up from Friendly Software Vendor warning me about a problem...........
Then the buffer overflow and priviledge escalation exploit takes over and installs a malacious piece of code with your full approval as Root/Admin in side your computer.
The article was about that fact the malicous code is now appearing in limited quantities in the wild, that is specifically targeting OSX. It will only be time before OSX is as much a target as Windows.
It is all about targets and opportunity. When OSX was 3% of the Internet it was more worthwhile to chase the other 95% which was Windows. Now OSX is getting 6% and rising it is becoming an economical target to attack, ie 20 million OSX machines if I can get 1000 credit card from them and spend $1000 on each, I have just scored $1,000,000.
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