It's amazing how success breads attention and hackers.
tech ping please.
the article doesn’t say it, but reading between the lines, it may be implied, based on google’s reaction wrt china, that this was a state-sponsored theft/infiltration.
> Just a couple years ago Apple was considered by their users/fans as impenetrable and google was the darling of the IT world.
As many objective people tried to point out, the low incidence of hacks on Linux, Mac and other systems was partly due to their low numbers. Also, MS has pushed hard on security for quite a few years now. None of it stands still.
I’m tired of the Chicoms reading my emails!
If you RTFA, you’ll see that the initial penetration was via a Microsoft software package, Messenger, then stealing Google source code via what sounds like a Windows penetration.
I quote thusly:
“The theft began with an instant message sent to a Google employee in China who was using Microsoft’s Messenger program, according to the person with knowledge of the internal inquiry, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.
By clicking on a link and connecting to a “poisoned” Web site, the employee inadvertently permitted the intruders to gain access to his (or her) personal computer and then to the computers of a critical group of software developers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Ultimately, the intruders were able to gain control of a software repository used by the development team. “
ChiCom war-hackers showing Google the price for disobeying dear leader.
One of the biggest problems with “computing in the cloud.”
Need to move to digital certs and pin numbers.
Wow, we need to hurry up and get all those medical records online.
"Riddled with security holes"... well, of course no operating system is free from flaws, only a diehard Mac fanboi would claim that, and that ain't me. But I think "riddled" is perhaps a little strong. Consider:
I'm still waiting for those Mac viruses you say are gonna happen. C'mon "for-q"... surely you know some other guys who hate Apple as much as you do, who can write viruses. Tell 'em to stop sitting around with their thumbs up their arses and start programming!
The fact is that there are around 50,000,000 Macs on the net now, none of which have even rudimentary anti-virus software, all of which are operated by users running with full administrative privilege, most of whom are not technically savvy. That's enough to build hundreds or thousands of useful botnets, if a virus could be written that would work on a Mac.
And there's no competition from other virus writers -- it's a totally open fertile field! FIFTY MILLION COMPUTERS with their legs spread wide on the Internet saying, "Take me, I'm yours!! Come on big boy!!"
What a field day!! C'mon, for-q, prove that the Mac is no longer the "impenetrable" machine the Apple fanbois say it is.
Who's gonna be the first to write a successful Mac virus??? One that self-replicates and pwns the machine without the user being any the wiser... like a typical Windows virus... it can't be that hard, right? You keep saying it's easy... "riddled with holes" you said.
C'mon, where's the virus? Where's the virus????
[crickets. nothing but freakin' crickets...]
Seriously, I can't wait for the first real Mac virus that goes out and compromises, say, half a million machines. You know why? Because it'll shut up the Mac fanbois (whom I find tiresome), and it'll mean I can finally stop having to shut up the stupid Windows fanbois like you who take every opportunity to spread FUD about the security of a Unix-based operating system.
I've really gotten quite tired of it, and yet neither you nor the other fanbois, of whatever flavor, show any signs of shutting up on your own. *sigh*
[more crickets]
WHERE ARE MY MAC VIRUSES, FOR-Q? I'M TIRED OF WAITING.
Just joking. I can wait some more, no problem... :)
And my banks keep begging me to “do it all online!”
Yeah. Right. I think not!!
The hackers have found that the iPhone is the target of choice now. Easily hacked and used by millions that have no clue.
WOW.