Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft when it comes to security. Time to face the music…

 

http://malware.cbronline.com/news/apple-10-years-behind-microsoft-on-security-kaspersky-250412

Credits goto Steve Evans & CBR Online
http://malware.cbronline.com/archive/4294941974

It seems it’s time to face the music for Apple..

Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky,
speaking exclusively to CBR at Info Security 2012, Kaspersky told us that Apple is a long way behind Microsoft when it comes to security and will have to change the ways it approaches updates following the recent malware attacks.

"I think they are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security," Kaspersky told CBR. "For many years I've been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac and Windows. It's always been possible to develop Mac malware, but this one was a bit different. For example it was asking questions about being installed on the system and, using vulnerabilities, it was able to get to the user mode without any alarms."

Kaspersky added that his company is seeing more and more malware aimed at Macs, which is unsurprising given the huge number of devices being sold. Its most recent quarter revealed Mac sales of 4 million, a 7% rise on the year ago quarter. These figures are still dwarfed by PC sales of course, and Kaspersky said Windows will remain the primary target for cyber criminals.

However he added an increase in Mac malware was, "just a question of time and market share. Cyber criminals have now recognised that Mac is an interesting area. Now we have more, it's not just Flashback or Flashfake. Welcome to Microsoft's world, Mac. It's full of malware."

"Apple is now entering the same world as Microsoft has been in for more than 10 years: updates, security patches and so on," he added. "We now expect to see more and more because cyber criminals learn from success and this was the first successful one."

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A chronology of selected programming languages shows a few of the links between them. The diagram is not a genealogy but merely indicates major patterns of influence. The classification of languages as imperative, functional, object-oriented or declarative is also approximate; only a few "pure" languages belong exclusively to one of these categories. The chronology is based in part on time lines constructed by Éric Lévénez and by Pascal Rigaux and on information from the Association for Computing Machinery History of Programming Languages conferences.

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