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The first time, but now that it's happened, probably not the last.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/us-apple-china-malware-idUSKCN0RK0ZB20150921
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But I thought apple was too secure to get malicious code?
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Not the gods they thought they were obviously.....
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I can never claim to know much about app development but there was a paragraph in this article that confused me somewhat....
"The hackers embedded the malicious code in these apps by convincing developers of legitimate software to use a tainted, counterfeit version of Apple's software for creating iOS and Mac apps, which is known as Xcode, Apple said".
How on earth could developers of legitimate software be " convinced to use a tainted counterfeit version"?
Do they not check? Are they unaware of any such risk? Or have they become complacent?....
This is NOT a dig at Apple....I worry if this is so easy to do, surely it could affect other software?
