Saturday, December 22, 2007

Macs Join The Army

Forbes reports in that the Army is integration Macs into it's computer choices. 20,000 of 700,000 machines are Macs.

"Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either. Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack. That's because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the military's computer mix makes it tougher to destabilize a group of military computers with a single attack, Wallington says."

No the Mac is free of security flaws, but at this point there are fewer attacks against it, though that's growing too. "In the past two years, until this October, F-Secure found only a small handful of malicious programs targeting Macs. In the past two months, the company has found more than a hundred specimens of Mac-targeted malicious code."

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