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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It’s a long held belief that unless you are using the Windows platform, you are more or less immune to the average virus, trojan, or hack that you might encounter out in the wilds of the internet. There is some truth to the notion that Windows is more vulnerable to attacks, but there really is […]
Hacking an iOS device may be getting tougher to do. Per iPodNN, in a recent tweet, hacker i0n1c has revealed that the forthcoming iOS 6.1 update adds “again tougher protections” to the codebase even compared to iOS 6, suggesting that security has been dramatically improved. While many users have perfectly legitimate reasons (beyond just wanting […]
On Thursday, security firm Intego announced that it has discovered more strains of the Flashback Trojan horse. The company says that “many Mac users have been infected by this malware,” especially the latest variant, Flashback.G. Per Macworld, Intego describes three unique methods that the Trojan horse uses to infect Macs: It attempts to exploit a […]
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. […]