Intego Warns of Mac OS X Trojan Horse (The Mac Observer)
Intego warned of a new Trojan Horse on Wednesday that affects Mac OS X and has been found on several pornography Websites. The Trojan Horse installs a modification to the Mac's DNS server that allows it to redirect Web requests to alternate servers, phishing sites. Personal data can then be stolen. However, a long series of poor decisions by the user is required for it to become active...more... Mac users beware: Porn Trojans have arrived (Asia Times)
(This is the first in a weekly series of technology news and events published every Friday in which we round up the hot topics in cyberspace and look at all that's happening in the world of information technology.)...more... Storage Basics: Understanding Fibre Channel Domains (Enterprise Storage Forum)
Understanding the way Fibre Channel (FC) identifies domains, and a new mechanism for virtualizing your fabric, enables you to exploit these concepts to your advantage....more... EU investment markets shake-up - EUbusiness Week no 375 (Eu Business)
Publisher's Note ================ Europe's banks and trading platforms are working under a new regulatory regime. From Thursday, the EU's Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) came into force, with the aim of ending stock exchange monopolies and requiring brokers to offer the cheapest prices for clients' trades....more... Apple's Latest Switchers: Malware Writers (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)
The Trojan, OSX.RSPlug.A, represents one of the relatively few Mac exploits to be spotted in the wild....more... U.S. Broadband Stuck in the Internet Slow Lane (CircleID)
The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them. What's less clear is how badly the country that gave birth to the Internet is doing, and whether the government needs to step in and do something about it. The Bush administration has tried to ......more... Trojan spells new era for Apple Mac security (ZDNet Asia)
Some security experts believe a piece of malware specifically designed to exploit Apple's OS X marks the start of more concerted efforts to attack Macs....more... News: Mac Attack Targets Porn Surfers (Scientific American)
...more... Anti-Virus On A Mac? (Washington Post)
Every other week, I host a Security Fix Live chat with readers, and almost invariably, one of the questions that comes up is: "Hi. I'm a Mac user. Should I be using anti-virus software?" I usually answer that while there are very few recent examples of malicious software in the wild built for Mac users, no amount of protective software should be seen as a substitute for using your head when ......more... |