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Linux on Mac Could Spike Attackers' Interest
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 00:30, 24th April 2006 GMT
Source: Mac News World
Mac enthusiasts have pushed Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple Boot Camp one step further to support Linux on the Intel-based Mac product line.
Apple released Boot Camp -- software operating system that dual boots OS X Latest News about OS X and Windows XP on Intel-based Macs -- after a Mac fan figured out how to do it and released the source code.
Now, open source Latest News about open source software is available that allows Mac users to load Linux onto the Intel-based Mac as well. It can be found on OnMac.net.
Security Concerns
The development hardly comes as a surprise -- it has been possible to run Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Latest News about Red Hat Linux on PowerPCs for several years.
However, these expanding options for Mac users may come with a price: As it becomes more commonplace to load alternate operating systems on Intel-based Macs, security lapses and hacker Latest News about hacker attacks are sure to increase.
While only serious geeks might have run Red Hat on the PowerPC, users who are not as computer-literate -- the same people who tend to be less than rigorous about Internet Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. security -- might be tempted to try Linux themselves on Intel-based computers.
"Mac users have historically lived under a false sense of security when it comes to Internet threats," Jon Kuhn, director of product management at SonicWALL told MacNewsWorld. "This is largely because the majority of threats have been directed toward Windows-based operating systems, which are more widely used in business networks worldwide; their availability for attack gives them greater statistical prominence."
That said, there is nothing inherently dangerous about using Linux on a Mac, he added. The risks are built into the Internet environment.
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