Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can't lock down its booty

Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can't lock down its booty

Amos Shapira amos.shapira at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 12:34:07 IST 2011


>From the link: "They show that about 16 per cent of infections hit Macs.
They didn't show any infections on Linux machines. Turner said that Jnanabot
attacks on the open source platform weren't able to survive a reboot.".

At least for now, Linux' argument about it actually being more secure are
vindicated.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/19/mac_linux_bot_vulnerabilities/

Interesting....

--Amos
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