There's a new and particularly clever piece of malware in town called WireLurker, and rather unusually it targets iOS and OS X. Even more remarkably, WireLurker is surprisingly virulent, possibly ...

Researchers at Sophos Labs, which first detected Apple's silent upgrade, said that Apple updated its XProtect.plist, a file that contains basic signatures for various Mac threats, specifically to ...

Despite common consensus and Apple’s own “Get a Mac” ad campaign propaganda,, Macs certainly aren’t immune to the threats of viruses and malware: they’re just less likely to be infected by them, ...

Dubbed "OSX/Leap.a" by McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec, the malware spreads using the Mac's built-in iChat instant messaging service, where it arrives as an IM file transfer. If the recipient opens the ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - July 26, 2012: Just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of the OS X operating system*, new malware has been discovered highlighting the need for ...

Instances of Apple OS X malware are soaring this year, already totaling more than five times the number tallied over the previous five years combined, according to an in-house Bit9 + Carbon Black ...

OpenDNS, the DNS provider of choice to the discerning and paranoid, is blocking the Flashback Trojan. Once it has infected your Mac, Flashback attempts to “call home” to a server to receive further ...

Apple took more than three weeks to acknowledge the Mac Defender malware and offer a solution. That's three weeks too long For years it was unavoidable. All you had to do was write something about a ...