The bad news: There’ll always be people designing viruses, trojans and malware for computers. The good news: It’s quite a bit rarer on the Mac OS X side of things. Even so, the latest attempt from digital wrongdoers to infect your Mac has been spotted taking on the look and feel of Adobe’s Flash Installer. […]
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If you wanted to know who was responsible for all that MacDefender malware nonsense a few months ago, they might have something. After a raid on Russian payment giant Chronopay’s offices, authorities have found evidence linking the company to the MacDefender fake anti-virus scam that targeted Mac users. Per security expert Brian Krebs’ blog post, […]
In the category of “weird but interesting and mildly disturbing”, a prominent security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the batteries of Apple’s MacBook line of portable computers that could allow hackers to ruin the batteries or install malware on them that could corrupt a Mac. Per Forbes, Charlie Miller, a renowned white-hat hacker who […]
Along with yesterday’s Mac OS X 10.6.8 update, Apple also released Security Update 2011-004, which brings some of the same patches to Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), as well as fixing some Leopard-specific security bugs. Per Macworld, the update patched 28 bugs in systems ranging from AirPort to MobileMe, QuickTime, and subversion. While many of […]
Late Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.8, the most recent version of its Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” operating system. The update, which alternates between 250 MB and 1.09 gigabytes for the combo update download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Enhancements to the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready […]