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        <title><![CDATA[Perhaps...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To me that sounds more like my old Windows 95 example, by MacOS standards Windows 95 is crazy secure online, there is almost no viruses in the wild attacking windows 95.  Only a direct targeted attack will (just like a Mac)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:48:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A better analogy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To make this analogy more accurate, they're shooting bullets that only affect tanks and not bicycles.  In this case the guy on the bike *is* safer than the guy in the tank.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[djdawson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:57:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Glad you enjoyed it {nt}]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:28:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[@Ansu, You are correct]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That would be more accurate in many cases.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:27:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rum]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No, I'm still on the no-rum diety.Although I am a sucker for that Conund brand.I check for &quot;teh&quot; and &quot;dna&quot; - type errors, but phlet/pleth substitutions slip through more easily.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:59:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's that mentaliaty]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That makes me hate the world.But instead, I try and look to the winter with a warm smile and a gracious hand. Only to slap them and be on my merry way.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NexS]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:01:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I *LOVE*]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That analogy.It is now my favourite. Ever.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NexS]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:39:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;phletora&quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's the second transposition I've seen today from you. Have you gone off the wagon and taken to rum?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:25:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually it should be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A guy on a bicycle, who thinks he's riding in a tank.Seeing as how they don't know yet what it means to have a phletora of known vulnerabilities under their hood.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:18:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not suprising]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[since most Mac users think there is no malware for their systems.they forget / don't know that rootkits are designed to breach for privilege escalation, which is part of the built in security of all the Unix and Unix like [ might as well just use posix, since the only main os that isn't covered by it is MS. ] operating systems.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaqui]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:46:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Way to fail....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I said they aren't shooting at you, they are still shooting.  your just the guy going through the middle hoping not to get hit.Again, a Tank getting directly shot at, and hoping it doesn't find a vulnerable spot and blow your ass away.  Or a rider on a bicycle hoping no one notices how vulnerable you are.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:39:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE Mac users increasingly susceptible to security threats]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mac users are safer from malware, for now but, that's because they don't have legions of very smart and extremely motivated people, who are sitting in front of a computer all night long, working diligently. Trying to do bad things to Macs, Yet. But if they keep getting more popular, it will happen, and the Mac people can go on believing that they don't get infected because it's just physically impossible. But that will be their undoing. When enough really smart people get motivated and learn that OS thoroughly, and think outside the box, as in doing things differently, and not trying to make windows type malware for a Mac. They will figure it out. I just  don't think anything is impervious. It's been happening since the beginning of recorded history. Everything that has been thought to be invulnerable, has been proven to be. But right now there doesn't seem to be large numbers of Mac hackers. I just find it odd, that Mac fan boys think this has nothing to do with it, and that they are only safe because it just isn't physically possible to make malware for OSX.  By the way I don't have problems with malware or hacking. most of the problems people have, they bring upon themselves. I know every time I have had problems in the past, I did something stupid. But I learned the do's and dont's years ago. And I try to educate my customers but, so many of them just don't get it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[j-mccurdy@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:17:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That is not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What the article stated.The article summarized an ongoing security analysis that has been done for years, and this is the first time that the MAC platform has the most opportunities for attack.MOST security vulnerabilities (as pointed out by the article) are from 3rd party software, and not direct OS based attacks.I am completely missing your point, if there was one other than saying it isn't true.If you read the report, your statement has been true since 'years back'( at least before 2005 according to this report, but certainly before then)OS compromise, at the OS level will almost always require physical access.  Once something is plugged into a network, or then extends that network via that connection, the attack vector expands.  The report confirms that.The author wrote that.Platform independent.The difference is, primary due to the distribution methods and software apple supports on it's base OS, they now have the highest attack vector, and the author points out in the enterprise this is more relevant than before.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[QAonCall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:15:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[#2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If nobody's shooting, there's no war.In other words, a very bad analogy. Care to try again?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:54:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thats a tank vs a bicycle...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which is safer....A tank driving through a war zone with everyone shooting at it.Or a bicycle and rider riding through a war zone but no one is shooting at him.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:21:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[# of threats overblown]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the moment, there is only one real threat, and that's to the user, not the machine. It's very difficult to protect a user from phishing, no matter what platform he uses. And phishing attacks are getting better all the time. If the user doesn't pay attention to what he's looking at, he only makes himself more vulnerable. This has absolutely nothing to do with security software, since, as I said, it's almost impossible to block.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:53:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vulnerabilities do not equal Exploits]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While I don't disagree with the article in general, the threat is still far smaller for OS X than Windows. However, phishing is universal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:49:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The article is entitled:Mac users increasingly susceptible to security threatsIt goes on to point out in detail, and links to details of how the attack vector for MAC, and others, has changed, links to referenced information, and basically reviews the findings.Where were you/we mislead?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[QAonCall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:51:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Misleading article...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a world of differences between Mac and Windows security.Of course, you need  &quot;common sense&quot; in every person of your staff. Everybody can be scammed, no matter what computer system you use.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jorge.cordero@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:20:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Mac users increasingly susceptible to security threats]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was only told yesterday by a mac person that they dont need security software because there are no viruses.....i laughed and said &quot;that is a real mac belief&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deanmoncaster]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:01:40 -0700</pubDate>
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