![]() ![]() Taking lessons from the currently malware-free world of iOS, Apple has been enhancing the security of Mac OS X since the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, slowly at first, and more significantly of late.Īpple’s strategy relies on five technical pillars: enhancing the foundational security of Mac OS X hardening Safari (Web browsers being the most common avenue of attack today) encouraging apps to use sandboxing techniques to limit attack vectors keeping the Mac App Store as free of malicious applications as possible and, with 10.8 Mountain Lion, using Gatekeeper to reduce the ability of attackers to trick users into running downloaded malicious applications.īut we shouldn’t think of this as just an ever-escalating technical battle. But it’s clear Apple recognizes this risk. As users flock to the Mac, it’s only natural that criminals will follow - that growing market share makes the Mac community a sufficiently lucrative target. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbkĪpple is in the midst of a major transition with the Mac platform.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage. ![]()
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