MAC OS X: All This and Total Security Too...Another Mac Myth Bites the Dust

I am a Mac owner, and I love it. I only bring this up, because the zealots of the Cult of Mac (a.k.a. The Disciples of Steve) will resort to inflammatory name calling once I type the following statement: The Mac is not perfectly secure. Sorry, but it's true. While I know that the Mac doesn't currently suffer from the same barrage of attacks PCs do, it is not impervious to infiltration. Our friends at eWeek recently posted an article (link below) detailing some of the issues a recent OS X patch alleviates. Here's an excerpt:

Security alerts aggregator Secunia Inc. rated the update as 'highly critical' and warned that Mac users are at risk of security bypass, cross-site scripting, data manipulation, data leakage, privilege escalation, denial-of-service and system access attacks.

There's even mention of buffer-overflows in the OS, something Mac zealots have been mocking Microsoft about for years. Turn about is fair play, my friends...glass houses and all that.

If you're considering a Mac for security reasons, that's fair (you'll definitely not face the spyware nightmare PC users do), but don't think that a Mac relieves you of the necessity of due diligence. It can't. Nothing can.

- Hutch

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