Posted: Apr 06, 2012 6:04 pm
The_Metatron wrote:Yeah, this big story comes from a company called Kaspersky. Guess what they sell?
which is why you only trust political news from kids tv characters, and get nutritional advise from a mechanic etc.
ffs, who do you think actually do the most research in computer malware.
on the nature of this threat, apple decided that java was an integral aspect of the OS, and therefore built it into the OS code itself. this means apple are responsible for maintaining java. 6 weeks ago Oracle patched java for windows/linux, but not for mac as it does not maintain it. apple only submitted the update this week, this java vulnerability is what the virus is exploiting , and is likely to reoccur for other forthcoming java vulnerabilities unless apple significantly increase their response time for patching java in short order to Oracle updates
(note, all the OS's are vulnerable to java exploits to a certain degree (though linux's compartmentalization makes it harder) hence why known exploits are patched - but the gap between other OS's and apple's java getting patched puts OS-X at more risk because its essentially waving a flag for malware writers saying massive whole here once Oracle update on other systems)
no, its based on UNIX/BSD/NeXTSTEP kernel that apple rewrote aspects of and added too