All Things Digital is reporting that computers owned by Apple employees were hacked by the Chinese. What makes this worse is that this group is thought to be responsible for the hack of Facebook recently. And even worse than that, is that Java was used yet again to perpetrate the hack:
Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers,” the company said in a statement to AllThingsD. “The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers. We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network. There is no evidence that any data left Apple. We are working closely with law enforcement to find the source of the malware.
The likely source according to the The Next Web is a popular site for iPhone developers called iPhoneDevSDK. As it stands, the site is infected with the marware that is the source of this hack. Visiting this site is NOT recommended.
As for the link to the Chinese, here’s what the New York Times had to say:
In an article published Monday evening, The New York Times reported that one group of Chinese cyberattackers, which has been tied to a specific military unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, leveraged the social connections of its targets to send malicious e-mails that eventually allowed them to compromise thousands of organizations, ranging from Coca-Cola to the International Olympic Committee.
Now, if you haven’t got rid of Java from your Mac, or PC, or LINUX box, I would highly recommend doing it now. It is beyond clear that you are unsafe with Java so you would be making yourself very secure by doing so. But if you must have Java on your computer for whatever reason, Oracle has fresh updates of Java for you to download and install. For whatever security that brings you.
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Apple Laptops Hacked…. Java To Blame Along With The Chinese
All Things Digital is reporting that computers owned by Apple employees were hacked by the Chinese. What makes this worse is that this group is thought to be responsible for the hack of Facebook recently. And even worse than that, is that Java was used yet again to perpetrate the hack:
Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers,” the company said in a statement to AllThingsD. “The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers. We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network. There is no evidence that any data left Apple. We are working closely with law enforcement to find the source of the malware.
The likely source according to the The Next Web is a popular site for iPhone developers called iPhoneDevSDK. As it stands, the site is infected with the marware that is the source of this hack. Visiting this site is NOT recommended.
As for the link to the Chinese, here’s what the New York Times had to say:
In an article published Monday evening, The New York Times reported that one group of Chinese cyberattackers, which has been tied to a specific military unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, leveraged the social connections of its targets to send malicious e-mails that eventually allowed them to compromise thousands of organizations, ranging from Coca-Cola to the International Olympic Committee.
Now, if you haven’t got rid of Java from your Mac, or PC, or LINUX box, I would highly recommend doing it now. It is beyond clear that you are unsafe with Java so you would be making yourself very secure by doing so. But if you must have Java on your computer for whatever reason, Oracle has fresh updates of Java for you to download and install. For whatever security that brings you.
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