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Apple announces media event for Monday, March 21st at 10 AM

Give it enough time and eventually Apple catches up to the rumors. Apple has announced a special event for members of the press at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 21st, at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino. The event will be streamed via apple.com and can be accessed from any Mac running OS X 10.8.5 or […]

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KeRanger ransomware arrives on the Mac, Transmission 2.90 application infected

Ransomware has come to the Mac. Over the weekend, researcher at Palo Alto Networks stated that ransomeware, which encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to pay ransoms in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic key so they can retrieve their data, has been found to be targeting the Mac OS X […]

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Malware, leaked emails, code samples point to HackingTeam’s return on the Mac

HackingTeam has apparently returned. A group of researchers has uncovered what appears to be malware from the HackingTeam group. The group had surfaced last July, creating malware-as-a-service software. Recently, a sample of the group’s work, posted to the Internet, revealed 400 gigabytes worth of the group’s private e-mail and source code. The sample was uploaded […]

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Apple looking to incorporate Siri into OS X 10.12 this fall

At long last, Siri is coming to OS X. The current word has it that Apple is looking to include Siri into OS X 10.12 this fall. The feature is almost ready to go, and will be announced at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference as part of OS X 10.12 in June. The next version […]

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Researcher finds Sparkle framework vulnerability, highlights popular apps that could be exploited

Well, this is a mess. A “huge” number of third-party Mac apps are under threat of man-in-the-middle attacks due to a recently discovered vulnerability in Sparkle, an open source framework used to facilitate software updates. The flaw, which centered around a flawed WebKit rendering engine implementation found in certain Sparkle builds, is to blame for […]