“Apple Inc. computers were attacked by the same hackers [since traced to China] who targeted Facebook Inc, but no data appeared to have been stolen, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented admission of a widespread cyber-security breach,” Jim Finkle and Joseph Menn report for Reuters.
“Apple, which is working with law enforcement to track down the hackers, told Reuters that only a small number of its employees’ Macintosh computers were breached, but ‘there was no evidence that any data left Apple,'” Finkle and Menn report.The iPhone and iPad maker said it would release a software tool later on Tuesday to protect customers against the malicious software used in the attacks.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “Dan K.,” and “James P.” for the heads up.]
I am hacked off by hackers!
Why can’t they be trackers?
I for one shudder
with excitement at a another
trip to the knackers
to deliver them some hackers!
Oooops! Happens to the best of us.
*crickets* ?
Where are all the Fanbois that say Apple products cannot be hacked, that they need no AV software or additional Firewall, etc?
@Agent P: please note that, according to a .
Reuters News story:
“Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers”.
The Boston Globe reported: ” Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs that use the Java programming language after Apple blocked Java due to security problems”.
My point? Don’t get smug about this attack that affects Apple products; it isn’t Apple, but rather 3rd party add-ons that are the vulnerability. Lock out Java and Flash, and you’ll go a long way in keeping your Mac safe.