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Apple hires Kristin Paget to help strengthen OS X’s security protocols

If you’re going to be a target for hackers, you might want to hire someone with extensive experience for a company that’s long been a target… Per Wired, tt was discovered on Thursday that famed hacker and former Microsoft employee Kristin Paget is now working for Apple as a core operating system security researcher, suggesting […]

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“Dockster” trojan for the Mac goes into the wild, plays on the same Java vulnerability as “Flashback”

Ok, this shouldn’t be happening again. Per F-Secure, a new piece of malware that takes advantage of a well-documented Java vulnerability has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama, with the trojan able to install itself on an unwitting Mac user’s computer to capture keystrokes and other sensitive data. Dubbed “Dockster,” the […]