Aarron Walter

CNN is reporting a story we have all heard before, but perhaps there is finally some validity to it this time. Macs have had little to worry about with viruses, Trojan horses, and the like in the past because their market share in the computer industry was small enough to avoid enticing hackers to launch attacks on their systems. Apple has seen steady increases in sales of the Mac, selling 1,610,000 Macs in the recent quarter, with many purchases being made by Windows PC users (50% of Mac sales in Apple stores was to new Mac users). Apple is becoming a bigger target for hackers as they increase their market share. Hopefully they will prove more successful with security issues than Microsoft has. Apple’s recent iPod virus blunder is, however, not encouraging.