Mac malware inside BitTorrent app, signed with legit Apple developer ID
If you downloaded the legitimate BitTorrent client for Mac OS over the past few days, you may have installed a nasty backdoor, security experts have warned.
If you downloaded the legitimate BitTorrent client for Mac OS over the past few days, you may have installed a nasty backdoor, security experts have warned.
The rate of new software vulnerabilities jumped dramatically between 2014 and 2013, with 19 new vulnerabilities disclosed every day last year and an upwards trend suggesting things could only get worse this year.
David Braue | 27 Feb | Read more
A glitch in the search software in Apple's OS X Yosemite can expose private details of Apple Mail users, revealing their IP address as well as other system details to spammers, phishers and online tracking companies.
Loek Essers | 10 Jan | Read more
On Monday Apple issued a security update for Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite that fixes a "critical security issue with the software that provides the Network Time Protocol service on OS X." Recommended for all users, Software Update suggests that you install the update as soon as possible. Details are currently unavailable, but Apple should issue them on the Apple Security Updates page shortly.
Christopher Breen | 23 Dec | Read more
A white-hat hacker from Sweden says he's found a serious security hole in Apple's Yosemite OS X that could allow an attacker to take control of your computer.
Magnus Aschan | 01 Nov | Read more
Apple is being called out for how it shares desktop and Web searches in its latest desktop operating system, Yosemite.
Jeremy Kirk | 21 Oct | Read more
Apple exposed iOS users to security threats by taking three weeks longer to patch the same vulnerabilities in the mobile OS that it previously fixed in Safari on OS X, a former Apple security engineer said.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Apr | Read more
A German security company has released an unauthorized patch for Apple's OS X Mavericks that it claimed closes the hole the Cupertino, Calif. giant left wide open in the operating system's implementation of basic Internet encryption.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Feb | Read more
A new piece of digitally signed spyware for Mac OS X uses a special Unicode character in its file name to hide its real file extension from users and trick them into installing it.
Lucian Constantin | 16 Jul | Read more
Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.
Lucian Constantin | 17 May | Read more
Security company Intego has discovered a new OS X backdoor trojan virus, dubbed Pintsized, that bypasses Gatekeeper to infect Macs and can help attackers get past firewalls by initiating an encrypted reverse-shell connection.
Ashleigh Allsopp | 22 Feb | Read more
The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a "drive-by" Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool.
Gregg Keizer | 20 Feb | Read more
Mac users can thank Microsoft for taking down a small but dangerous botnet.
Gregg Keizer | 29 Sep | Read more
Apple has updated the bare-bones antivirus protection included with Mac OS X to detect a Trojan horse that poses as a PDF document.
Gregg Keizer | 27 Sep | Read more
Security firms today warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a PDF document.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Sep | Read more