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"600,000+ Macs are in this botnet, including 274 in Cupertino"
Malware targeting users of Macintosh computers appears to be spreading quickly. One anti-virus vendor is reporting more than 600,000 OS X computers are part of a newly assembled botnet.
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SSCC 87 - Mac botnet, Global Payments, Flash Player updater, AES-NI and cloud...
David Schwartzberg is this week's guest on the Chet Chat to talk about the data breach at Global Payments, a new Mac botnet and Flash Player updating. David also explained the new AES-NI encryption...
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Are Macs safer than PCs?
Apple has traditionally marketed its systems as being more secure than those running Microsoft Windows, but just how true is that?
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Apple security team touches down on Planet Earth!
In KB article HT5244, Apple has - apparently for the very first time! - talked openly about a security problem before it has all its threat reponse ducks in a row. This is good news.
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FLAMING RETORT: All this new Mac malware - whose fault is it?
Flaming Retort is back, this time trying to Coole and Explayne the flames we've had from some Mac users in the past few days. In a back-to-front way of making Mac fans feel better, I'll start by making...
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Apple issues security updates for Mac OS X Leopard - to fight malware menace
Are you still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? If so, you have some very important critical security patches to install - helping to protect your Mac from malware threats.
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SSCC 91 - Utah explains data breach, Facebook hacker jailed, FlashBack...
This week's Chet Chat returns to our usual news format this week with guest Gary Korhonen (@hundredaire). Gary and Chet discuss the Utah data breach, Facebook hacker's prison term, OS X Leopard's...
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Oracle updates Java, supports OS X, claims full and timely updates for Apple...
Back in April, Apple came under fire for delaying an update to Java until the Flashplayer malware got loose. Let's hope that's a thing of the past, with Oracle publishing Java for OS X directly, and...
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The biggest Mac malware attack of all time - blogger names suspected mastermind
Award-winning security blogger Brian Krebs has shared details of his investigation into who might have been behind Flashback - which hit more than 600,000 Mac computers in early 2012
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Ruin privacy-invading photos with reflective glass nanosphere clothing
Wearing clothes that turn you invisible is one way to fend off unwanted photographs, but your identity's still up for grabs in the light of day.
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