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New Mac OS Hits Security Snag
by Rob Walker | November 7, 2007 at 09:27 am | 567 views | 2 comments
So have they been taking a page out of microsoft's book, or what? I haven't heard much one way or another about the new Mac OS, but this certainly isn't promising.
As someone who doesn't do much confidential work on their mac this isn't a big deal, but for companies this could mean big trouble. Here's hoping they get the kinks worked out.
Upgrading to the latest version of Apple's operating system, might make a Mac less secure, say experts.A test of Leopard revealed that installing it led to the firewall on a Mac being turned off and its default setting changed to leave it disabled.
Heise Security, who conducted the tests, said the failings meant users could not "rely" on the firewall to protect them.
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November 7, 2007 at 09:27 am by Rob Walker, 567 views, 2 comments
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at 12:41 on November 7th, 2007
Interesting...and I was thinking about buying a new computer recently.
at 16:38 on November 7th, 2007
I'm not a massive Mac-Fanboy, but Apple does make a decent product. I'm impressed they could develop the new OS in 18 months...although most of the features could have been a service update -there is no way 64-bit support should have been rolled out as a service update; so a new release is okay (in my eyes).
The more people using OS X and Apple products in general, the more you will find security flaws being discussed openly. There have been massive issues with Apple in the past that were not even a blip on the tech blogs...those days are few and far between.
That being said, having the firewall turned off by default is a silly mistake for a company that likes to flaunt how secure and solid their product is out of the box. I'm sure in the version that is due out before the end of he year (new update from 10.5 to 10.5.1) will resolve this issue as well as the quarks with Time Machine.
Good stuff.