More on Macintosh Malware

MacRumors has some information about how fast this issue is developing. (Still no reason for panic, however.)
@ MacRumors

More:

@ Apple
@ AppleInsider
@ The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
@ ZDNet: Malware spreading via Facebook
@ Huffington Post (video)

While on the subject of computer security: Facebook Scams.

I have said this to several friends:

The thing that makes this age seem new & different (not in a good way), is that for more of our lives most of us more or less never came into direct contact with overt criminality. Now, it's inside our very houses, right on our desks, at least once every day. That nice, Christian, Nigerian who has family or client money for which he will pay for help with [whatever], the traveling friend who is stranded in a foreign city after [whatever misfortune], the helpful Facebooker who will give you code so that you can see who is looking at your stuff--these are all criminals [unconvicted = a mere technicality], and it requires rather an act of will not to get the willies when their garbage infests the Inbox. Even when it seems only to involve an attempt at commerce, why do they think you would buy V1@gr@ from someone who isn't respectful of your wishes not to see their spammy come-on? (They respell their products' names to get past anti-spam filters.)

Couple that with attempts to break into our business, government, infrastructure, and defense computers, and one wonders what the next decade will be like. We may find that little by little, our stuff will have been so completely subverted that the only things (utilities, tools, weapons) that work are things that have no moving parts (physical or electronic). The childish and the sociopathic will have broken everything else.

Crud.

Mark_
10:36 01 June 2011