Yeah, OSX doesn't have enough market share to be interesting to bot herders. Apple iOS and Android may change that but so far the RBN and such haven't figured out how to make money off them. BTW, don't think OSX or iOS aren't pwnable - all of the current crop of Adobe hacks work on them.
Linux has even less market share and it's use for servers makes it less attractive (except for web-servers). Servers make the Internet work - botting servers might cause the Internet to not work. That could get unhealthy for the bright person who does it and interferes with a $2 trillion organized crime economy. The routing infrastructure (backbone, border, and edge) is mostly Cisco with Juniper running second and Foundry far behind. While IOS is based on BSD, every model runs a different version - Cisco is heterogenous. Nation state attacks on routing are probable - criminal attacks are not. Ray Parks ----- Original Message ----- From: Owen Densmore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 07:04 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] What is Going on with wikileaks On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > Note - the following advice is for Winders - there are no significant botnets > of OSX or Linux systems. Really? Whew! But are you sure? Seems to me that there are large number of linux/unix servers running many VMs, all of which could be compromised. And macs are getting pretty popular for not only desktops but phones and pads. And what about all the smartphones, not just iPhones? Wouldn't a couple of million hacked androids be interesting to the bot-net folks? And game machines? And AppleTV .. and heck, the TVs themselves even. And the real fear for me is the future hacking of the routers themselves, most are running linux nowadays, right? I guess its just the massive number of windows computers still is most logical due to the numbers. I'm not at all sure windows is inherently more vulnerable than mac/linux, right? -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
