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Microsoft - a computer-security annual competition in which researchers will compete to win cash prizes and hardware by exploiting browsers Web - end of last week, and the results may surprise you.
The first browser to obtain the machete was Apple's Safari. As Peter Bright of Ars Technica wrote Thursday, almost current 5.0.3. version of Safari, if running on a Mac OS X updated copy 10.6.6, succumbed to a malicious page written by French researchers with VUPEN, a security firm, in a few seconds.
They have proven the attack distance launches Mac Calculator program and writes a file to flash the MacBook Air drive - earn the right to keep the laptop, according to the rules of the competition.
Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft, running on Windows 7, updated with Service Pack 1, fell later in the day. Bright report note that the IE 8 exploits hack more at issue and that was five to six weeks to build, against two for Safari feat.
The second day of Microsoft (organized by the subsidiary based in Austin TippingPoint DVLabs have HP and held each year, at the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver), the iPhone 4, and a flame BlackBerry smartphone also suffered successful hacks. Although the iPhone 4 did not iOS of just-released to Apple 4.3 - the rules of the competition only requires that the target device before being current as of the week before software execution - vulnerability exploited in the attack are 4.3, too.
In two days, nobody has even tried to challenge Google's Chrome (even if Google has offered a separate scholarship to anyone who could hack chromium), Mozilla Firefox, OS of a s link smartphone running Google Android 2.3 or a Pro of the place of Dell with Microsoft Windows Phone 7.
(Google shipped the first patch for a bug to Microsoft, Gregg Keizer of Computerworld writes this morning.)
There is not much interpretation needed for these results, right? Apple Mac OS X is a platform dangerously insecure - it has been successfully hacked Microsoft every year since its debut in 2007 - which should be avoided if you do not want your computer to get supported by a drive - by download.
Except... This is not the actual experience of the use of a Mac. Or an iPhone. Both Apple computer and phone operating systems remain almost completely free of viruses, worms and Trojan horses, even while Apple market share has increased dramatically in both markets.
For example, Apple now claims 20% of the U.S. market of consumers, a number which would have been incredibly high only 10 years ago. IOS of the iPhone is 27 percent of the U.S. smartphone, linked with phones BlackBerry from Research In Motion and just behind Google Android, according to the latest research from Nielsen.
Should even 20 percent of the market enough to attract the interest of the authors of malicious software? I asked on Twitter and a blogger for ZDNet Ed Bott veteran Windows interesting response. He replied that "malware writers play a numbers game overall." OS x a ~ 6% in the world. »
But if current trends continue, it would not long before that the Mac hits 10 percent of the total market. Who will be sufficient? Or malware will continue to be a market in which Mac users marginalized at a considerably lower selection of third-party software from running on Windows?
Latest Apple security moves suggests he has an idea where things are lead: for the first time in recent history, it shares advance copies of its operating system Mac OS X Lion to come with security researchers. What is your forecast for Mac malware? Let me know in the comments.
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