Apple’s Mac security “a decade behind Microsoft”
When it comes to security, Apple’s Macintosh platform is “a decade behind Microsoft’s” according to head of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky.
“They will understand very soon that they have the same problems Microsoft had 10 or 12 years ago,” Kaspersky said in an interview with Computer Business Review.
“They will have to make changes in terms of the cycle of updates and so on, and will be forced to invest more into their security audits for the software.”
“That’s what Microsoft did in the past after so many incidents like Blaster and the more complicated worms that infected millions of computers in a short time,” he continued.
“They had to do a lot of work to check the code to find mistakes and vulnerabilities. Now it’s time for Apple.”
The comments come amid the Flashback malware outbreak on Mac computers. The malware infected over 650,000 at its peak, though current numbers suggest an infection count of around 185,000.
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