Hackers starting to look at Apple
Hackers starting to look at Apple
Past being ignored by hackers, Apple's iTune popularity ismeaning that the operating system is starting to attract the interest
of hackers.
According to a survey released on Easter Monday, in the Bulgarian
Orthodox calendar, by the SANS institute, hackers are still making hay
on VoleWare, but Apple products are starting to become tempting.
Hacks of iTunes were an interesting feature of the first three months
of 2005, says SANS, along with attacks on RealNetworks RealPlayer, and
Nullsoft's Winamp.
There more attempts to take on anti-virus software with Symantec,
F-Secure, TrendMicro and McAfee as targets.
Hackers continued to poke new holes in Microsoft Windows, although
SANS seems to think that is becoming harder as more Windows users
agreed to receive security upgrades automatically.
So instead, hackers are starting to try and take advantage of other
software programs that might not be patched as frequently, the survey
said.
