Apple snubs botnet-spotting security firm

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Apple snubs botnet-spotting security firm

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Slashdot wrote:Now that it's being increasingly targeted by botnet herders, Apple has a thing or two to learn about cooperating with friendly security researchers. Boris Sharov, the CEO of Dr. Web, the Russian security company that first reported more than half a million Macs were infected with Flashback malware last week, says when his company alerted Apple to the botnet, it never responded to him. Worse yet, on Monday Apple asked a Russian registrar to take down a domain it said was being used to host a command and control server for Flashback, but in fact was a 'sinkhole' that Dr. Web had set up to observe and analyze the botnet. Sharov describes the lack of communication and cooperation as a symptom of a company that has never before had to work closely with the security industry. 'For Microsoft, we have all the security response team's addresses,' he says. 'We don't know the antivirus group inside Apple.'
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I get the feeling that the sense of malware invincibility that Apple (and its "sheeple") have is about to be brutally shattered...
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Apple don't care that their platform is insecure

And neither does their customer base of hipsters and sycophants.
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I would not mind if the iSecurity team get a reality check.
Some of them might have to find new Jobs after this.
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