{"id":7942,"date":"2012-04-18T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2012-04-18T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T10:03:19","slug":"perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news from the first week of April 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/04\/flashback-trojan-reportedly-controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/04\/new-analysis-backs-half-million-mac-infection-estimate.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Half-million Mac infection estimate backed by new analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronista.com\/articles\/12\/04\/05\/systems.now.part.of.global.botnet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flashback Trojan infections estimated at 600,000 Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There seems to be a consensus of approximately 500,000 to 600,000 computers were affected by The Flashback Trojan. Forget about the possibility <em>that some of the machines were running FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, or other operating systems.<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/04\/new-analysis-backs-half-million-mac-infection-estimate.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>After Apple released Java Update and Flashback malware removal tool there are two types of headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/12\/04\/17\/flashback_malware_remains_on_140k_macs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Flashback malware still on 140K Macs despite fix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\/articles\/12\/04\/18\/now.under.100000.units.falling.fast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flashback.K-infected Macs dropping rapidly, Symantec finds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice the language contrast between the two headlines. The prior sounds more negative then the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news from the first week of April 2012: Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting Half-million Mac infection estimate backed by new analysis Flashback Trojan infections estimated at 600,000 Macs There seems to be a consensus of approximately 500,000 to 600,000 computers were affected by The Flashback Trojan. Forget about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/perspectives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perspectives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1150,1872,1931,2229,2648,2736,936],"class_list":["post-7942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-flashback","tag-lion","tag-mac-os-x","tag-os-x","tag-security","tag-snow-leopard","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-246","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}