> MacOS Keychain Theft Issue Shows You Can’t Just Trust Apple to Keep You Secure
The headline is intentionally inflammatory and absurd. Look around the large hardware and software manufacturers and ask which one is working the hardest to protect your privacy and and security. It’s certainly not Chinese-owned Lenovo for crying out loud.
One of the mitigations is that macOS requires apps to be signed, so the malware needs you to install a signed version of itself, forcefully install an unsigned version, or hack an existing software and use it to sign itself. Not the best but could certainly be worse.
While I agree that the headline is inflammatory (and kinda stupid) we shouldn't forget about its key message.
That is that a MacOS computer isn't completely secure, just like windows.
I've seen a ton of MacOS users who would run practically everything they'd get sent because "Macs don't get virusses, only windows".
Security best practices should always be followed, even if some devices are better protected than others.
The key sentence in the article (for me) is this one:
> many Mac users tend to be overly confident because they believe in Apple's message and think their systems are immune to malware and will protect them.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] threadThe headline is intentionally inflammatory and absurd. Look around the large hardware and software manufacturers and ask which one is working the hardest to protect your privacy and and security. It’s certainly not Chinese-owned Lenovo for crying out loud.
One of the mitigations is that macOS requires apps to be signed, so the malware needs you to install a signed version of itself, forcefully install an unsigned version, or hack an existing software and use it to sign itself. Not the best but could certainly be worse.
That is that a MacOS computer isn't completely secure, just like windows.
I've seen a ton of MacOS users who would run practically everything they'd get sent because "Macs don't get virusses, only windows".
Security best practices should always be followed, even if some devices are better protected than others.
The key sentence in the article (for me) is this one:
> many Mac users tend to be overly confident because they believe in Apple's message and think their systems are immune to malware and will protect them.
It's also hard to deny that OSX is becoming more and more of a target.