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MacKeeper? The company that aggressively advertises something that looks like scareware? Surprised that they are now supposedly the good guys. The Wikipedia in
by eis 10y ago
MacKeeper? The company that aggressively advertises something that looks like scareware? Surprised that they are now supposedly the good guys.
The Wikipedia intro reads "The software is heavily promoted and has been the subject of a class-action lawsuit for false advertising.".
They are now writing about a data leak of some spammers because these accidently left their repo open while MacKeeper had their own nice similar leak: "In December 2015 security researcher Chris Vickery discovered a publicly accessible database of 21GB of MacKeeper user data on the internet, exposing the usernames, passwords and other information of over 13 million MacKeeper users. According to Kromtech this was the result of a "server misconfiguration""
- sequence7 10y agoFrom the bottom of the article it looks like MacKeeper hired that security researcher: Attention - Portions of this article may be used for publication if properly referenced and credit is given to MacKeeper Security Researcher, Chris Vickery.
- tyingq 10y agoThe guy that found it says "On my own. Not hired", here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3wq9fc/massive_data_breach/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3wq9fc/massive_data_...
- tyingq 10y agoNote my comment above is apparently related to a different breach that involved MacKeeper. Please ignore, too late to edit.
- altern8tif 10y agoMacKeeper has 13 million users?? Who would install MacKeeper willingly?
- sna1l 10y agoI'm assuming most of them aren't doing it intentionally.
- btilly 10y agoMy 12 year old son has installed it multiple times without notification. This is what happens to people on a Mac who download minecraft modpacks off of random places on the internet...
- jdcarter 10y agoMy 10 year-old is an ace at spotting fake download buttons and "your PC is at risk!" banners thanks to downloading Minecraft mods. In an odd way, these spammy download sites have been a surprisingly good educational tool--to date she hasn't messed up her machine once.