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Kaspersky Lab states Flashback infections drop to under 30,000, warn of potential exploits en route

This too shall pass. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, Flashback infections have plummeted since Apple released a tool to stop the Trojan, but a security firm has cautioned that more malware could be on the horizon. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab held a press conference Thursday morning in which they revealed that the number […]

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New Mac OS X trojan horse goes live, acts as Adobe Flash Player updater application

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. […]