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  • Sophos joins free home AV crowd with Mac release

    Business-focused firm takes first step into home-user arena. Sophos has announced the release of a home-user edition of its Mac anti-malware solution, which is being given away free to anyone who wants to use it. Unprotected users of Apple ‘s Macintosh range of computers (reckoned by many to constitute the majority of users at the…

  • Macs under attack from trojan double whammy

    Two new threats in a week spark worries of approaching Mac malware era. Users of Apple Mac systems, who have so far only suffered from minimal attention from malware creators, may need to take more care in future according to some security analysts, after the exposure of a significant vulnerability in the operating system and…

  • Rogue anti-malware targets Mac users

    Scam expands horizons to draw in new market of victims. The rogue anti-malware scam, in which fake anti-spyware and anti-virus products are inveigled into victims’ machines, reporting spurious infections and demanding licensing fees to remove them, has branched out to target users of Apple Macintosh systems. According to a report from F-Secure , the latest…

  • Phishing trojan targets Mac OSX

    DNS hijack disguised as codec threatens Apple systems. A new trojan affecting Apple ‘s Mac OSX operating system – a relative rarity in the malware world – has been seen in the wild. The trojan, thought to belong to the highly prevalent Zlob (aka Puper) family, is being served by numerous fake codec sites, linked…

  • Word for Mac exploit spotted

    Patch Tuesday flaw targeted by vulnerability. A vulnerability in the Apple Mac version of Microsoft Word , covered by a patch in this month’s Patch Tuesday security update, has been subject of an attempted exploit seen by researchers at Symantec . The exploit document was observed to crash most versions of Word on Windows ,…

  • Vulnerabilities strike more AV firms, and Mac too

    F-Secure and Authentium patch holes, while Samba flaws worry Apple users. Users of Mac OS X , used to a cosy sense of security, have been warned of possible penetration vectors thanks to a slew of flaws unveiled in the Samba networking system used to connect Mac s to Windows systems. An alert issued by…