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It's nearly 2017 and JPEGs, PDFs, font files can hijack your Apple Mac, iPhone, iPad

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Re: Cupertino is ...

As Linux gains foothold in the desktop market, users will try to workaround too many password requests. Even on servers, I've seen "sysadmins" starting their sessions with "sudo bash" to be not bothered anymore by the need of typing sudo again, and - god forbids! - the password again.

Linux got attention and Linux servers are routinely compromised. They could be more targeted attacks than the classic ad malware/phishing attack against desktop users, but it's not so difficult to find some vulnerable Linux servers around, and use it as a beachhead to compromise a network - you don't really need always zero days to perform that...

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