Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Symantec slams Firefox, Macs

Opinion
Sep 20, 20051 min

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Symantec isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to Firefox and Macs, saying they’re not a safe haven from security breaches anymore.

The company even noted Mac heads were living in a “false paradise”. Oh, them’s fightin’ words for the fruity faithful.

Graham Pinkney, head of threat intelligence EMEA at Symantec (awesome title!), says thanks to a proliferation of cross-scripting attacks over the past 6 months, Firefox isn’t much safer than IE.

If that weren’t enough, Symantec then goes on to skewer the sacred Mac cow: “Mac users may be operating under a false sense of security as a noteworthy number of vulnerabilities and attacks were detected against Apple Mac’s operating system, OS X.”

Now, if they somehow worked in a “Linux sucks” slam in there, they would run the table on offending IT cults. (Ed. – Don’t forget NetWare – they’re a small lot these days, but they’re still insane.)

Via The Register