[MeganC]

I remember how all the Apple owners used to sneer about how they didn’t get viruses or malware. Anymore it seems that hacking Apple devices is the last great frontier for hackers.

[Paladin2]

Yapple market penetration has soared, plus the majority of users are upscale (who else could afford it).

the target size has increased of late.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I remember how all the Apple owners used to sneer about how they didn’t get viruses or malware.

The more prevalent and popular an OS is or becomes, the more susceptible the OS is to hackers.

[WVKayaker]

Researchers have warned that a bug in Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iOS operating system makes most iPhones and iPads vulnerable to cyber attacks by hackers seeking access to sensitive data and control of their devices.

Please explain how a POSSIBLE vulnerability becomes a virus or malware? Inquiring minds wish to know that secret, since NOBODY HAS BEEN INFECTED!

It is really sad that so many on this site disapprove of successful companies! They produce sound technology that just works. It just works every day, all day, and meets the needs of it's users.

A $20,000 investment in AAPL in 1987 would be worth roughly $3,200,000 today!!!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

No viruses in the wild yet.
To get malware, you have to give permission for an install.

To put it in perspective, after 6 years with a Mac, I’ve never had a virus. I do check, but never got the first one yet.

This is the opposite of my 13 years of windows experience.

[Swordmaker]

I remember how all the Apple owners used to sneer about how they didn’t get viruses or malware. Anymore it seems that hacking Apple devices is the last great frontier for hackers.

There are still zero virus for Mac OS X or iOS. This is not even up to the level of an Exploit on iOS. . . This is a claim that IF someone can SOMEHOW get a malicious Trojan onto an iOS device, they can do these really nasty things. . . but they haven't, yet, because they need to persuade the user to find, and download these malicious apps from a third party app store, which cannot be done without JAILBREAKING your iOS device! Well, DUH!

One of the major protections of iOS is the walled-garden approach to getting apps. . . in that they are ONLY available from Apple's curated App Store . . . where the user is assured the apps are SAFE!

It has always been known that if you open your doors and leave them standing wide open, which is what jailbreaking does, your security is effectively NONEXISTENT!

[trebb]

I remember how all the Apple owners used to sneer about how they didn’t get viruses or malware. Anymore it seems that hacking Apple devices is the last great frontier for hackers.

After their guy's assertion that being a homos is God's greatest gift to him, I would guess we'll hear about a lot of open back doors in the OS....

Apologies...