Category: Security
September 27, 2009
By now you’ve likely heard the news that Russian hacker collectives are paying a 43-cent bounty for each comprised Mac. Scary, huh? Well, actual incidences of this behavior observed in the wild are quite rare with the scammers paying more for hacked PCs.
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Posted in Hacks, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Security, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
September 26, 2009
To put that number in perspective, a hacker would have to compromise 233 Macs just to earn $100. That’s a vivid reminder of the old biker joke that ends with the punch line, Biker: “$232 and 25 cents! Which one of those cheapskates gave you a quarter?” Girlfriend: “Well, they all did.”
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Posted in Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Rumors, Security, Tips, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
September 21, 2009
Store personnel say that there’s little they can do to prevent little Suzy or Johnny from being potentially exposed to graphic representations of the very acts that were part or parcel of their conception. The hand wringing mother in question is shocked and demands the company implement a nanny policy.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Security, iPod Touch, news | 10 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
September 3, 2009
For whatever reason, Apple didn’t include that latest version of Flash, which is dated July 17, 2009, in its initial release of Snow Leopard. Fabulous new features to deliver interactive Web features in exciting new ways? Hardly. Just the latest security patch, one of a dozen so far this year alone.
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Posted in Adobe, Amusing, Apple, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Microsoft, OS X, Security, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 30, 2009

If a deal seems to good to be true, especially if it involves giving the unaware Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 crown jewels, then it probably comes with a malware payload. But, hey, it’s the early 21st Century and people should already know this stuff, right?
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Posted in Amusing, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, OS X, Security, Tips, news | 4 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 26, 2009
Look, it’s proof that the threat of malware on the Mac is 100 percent real! Gird your loins boys and girls, because the end is well nigh. Alternately, you could view this as a specific and measured response by Apple to the limited (trojans) threat facing Mac users.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, OS X, Security, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 12, 2009
Don’t let the nattering nabobs of negativity and cataclysmic doom convince you otherwise — there’s nothing new in the world of Mac malware. That said, there are places out there on the Internet (i.e. porn sites) that will tell you to install software that really isn’t software.
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Posted in Hacks, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Security, Tips, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
July 31, 2009
A security researcher has debuted a new proof-of-concept rootkit, the ultimate in malware, that works on Mac OS X, which may be a harbinger of bad things to come for Apple’s operating system.
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Posted in Apple, Hacks, Mac, OS X, Security, iPhone | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
July 3, 2009
The mothership is alerting members of this online program and forums that their account credentials, login and password, have been compromised. Although such events are common enough elsewhere on the interwebs, it’s quite unusual for one to affect Apple. Then again, perhaps it’s more that we’re not used to the company admitting such problems exist.
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Posted in Apple, Security, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
June 22, 2009
As if we didn’t all know about it anyway, experts in corporate governance insist that Apple should disclose whether or not Steve Jobs had a liver transplant if he returns to work as CEO.
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Posted in Announcements, Apple, Security, Steve Jobs | 3 Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones