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It is interesting that the headline of this article is unrelated to little factual content in the article itself. This is a prime example of using an Apple linkage to get hits, as the article itself really has very little to do with any threats at all either growing in the past or looming in the future for Apple products except the vague possibilities that they might.

In actual fact, there has been NO rise in successful attacks against either Apple OS X or iOS iPhones or iPads in the last year, except for a limited exploit in China involving an unauthorized third party App Store that convinced a small number of Chinese iPhone users to actively switch their iPhones to a setting that allowed downloading of apps from a source masquerading as their trusted employer's server, as if they were receiving trusted apps from their employer. . . So that a third party App Store could sell apps instead of Apple's App Store and better than 1/3 of the apps on that store were infected with malware for the purpose of identity theft. That possibility has been closed. . . and the crooked App Store has been closed by the Chinese government. It was essentially an elaborate Trojan Horse scheme. — Swordmaker

This article is one that uses a inflammatory headline about more Apple Malware coming in 2015 to cause people to read it. . . But there isn't any steak with their sizzle! It's mostly FUD for Apple users, but some useful general computer security information. So PING!

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While I still think you're a bit over-defensive of Apple in general, Sword, I have to agree with you that this article is a poorly-written miasma of buzzwords.

I think the most important take away from the article is this:

"We're going to see more attacks that are leveraging WiFi hotspots, fake base stations or even more aggressive exploitation of mobile browsers or messaging applications," he told TechNewsWorld.

This is a growing problem, and people who leave their wifi on all the time are going to be most susceptible to this attack vector. Most mobile devices have wifi turned on by default and configured to connect to any available wifi hotspot. Without some basic changes to the out-of-the-box OS, the uninitiated and misinformed among us are going to inadvertently put themselves into harm's way.