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How often do ordinary people actually get owned by zero days like you're describing? The majority have got to be malicious links, opening dangerous attachments,
by jollyllama 4y ago
How often do ordinary people actually get owned by zero days like you're describing? The majority have got to be malicious links, opening dangerous attachments, etc. Or, back in the day, a misconfigured firewall; I'd still absolutely recommend a strict firewall on the router.
- hot_gril 4y agoI agree, you can probably stay on an old release and be ok, but that doesn't mean it's worth the risk.
- suchar 4y agoIt is not a zero-day if it has been fixed in a newer OS version. I would say, the main risk here are known vulnerabilities, like, bug in a system library which does image rendering, font rendering etc. Targeting known CVE for old (no longer updated) MacOS versions might actually be quite good targeted attack: probably a bunch of users of such computers are technical folks with access to production servers, cloud credentials etc.