Analyst Dings Security Vendors For Exploiting Apple Flaws
From the article:
It’s no coincidence that not long after security vendors began beating the drum about possible exploits of the Mac OS X operating system, unpatched flaws were uncovered, an analyst suggested Monday.
Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, reacted to the recent news of a pair of worms aimed at Mac OS X and a zero-day vulnerability of Apple Computer’s operating system with accusations that the security industry hypes the danger in order to sell more security software.
“The job of security companies is to make the Apple platform look insecure,” said Enderle. “They’re now convinced that Apple is their next big revenue opportunity.”
kurt said,
March 1, 2006 @ 1:56 am
the analyst in question needs to get a better grip on the fundamentals - namely shannon’s maxim “the enemy knows the system” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon’s_Maxim)… keeping vulnerabilities obscure doesn’t increase anyone’s security…