Security

Crimekit malware threat

May 3, 2011

The recent success reported by Apple in it’s first quarter financial report must have spurred malware writers… there’s another one just reported. From TidBITS: The Danish security firm CSIS is reporting that they have uncovered evidence of a new “crimekit” called “Weyland-Yutani BOT” that criminals can use to make malware designed to steal information and [...]

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New Malware Threat – MACDefender

May 2, 2011

Intego posted an article early this morning with details of a new threat to OS X users. Called MACDefender, this malware targets by using SEO poisoning attacks through Safari. What makes it worse is that MACDefender pretends to be an Antivirus program! When performing a search, if you click on a rigged link you’re redirected [...]

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VirusBarrier Plus available at the Mac App Store

April 26, 2011

Intego released a new product to scan both Mac and Windows malware on your Mac… introductory price is $8.00, to go up to $10.00 regular price. That said, there’s still not much need for anti-virus software for many Mac users. But, and it is a big one… I’ve had several clients who’ve got complaints from [...]

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What to do if your email and name were exposed?

April 11, 2011

Macworld’s Christopher Breen wrote an article last week with suggestions on how to handle phishing emails you may get if your name and email address were captured during the Epsilon hack. He suggests that knowing that you’ve been exposed is important. We should all be cautious about emails that ask us to click a link [...]

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Another Security Issue: Expect targeted attacks after massive Epsilon e-mail breach

April 5, 2011

Important Security Alert Please read the full story at Computerworld and their article on how to avoid future phishing scams based on the Epsilon breach. The short version Epsilon, one of the largest marketing email providers in the world, had customer data exposed by an unauthorized entry into their email system. Email addresses and/or customer [...]

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Possible Mac security threat?

February 28, 2011

Sophos Labs received a sample trojan horse and analyzed it recently. It’s an unfinished product, but it may indicate that the Mac’s successful sales are being noticed. This trojan is a variant of the RAT (Remote Access Trojan) for Windows often called darkComet. According to a story at the nakedsecurity site the bit-of-nasty Sophos calls [...]

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Unsecured Wi-Fi vulnerability threats

February 21, 2011

The abundance of wi-fi availability is changing the way we do business, and the way we do life. What many don’t know is that hackers are able to tap into your computer via an unsecured wi-fi hotspot. How to protect yourself? That’s a great question. Following the release of Firesheep, a free software program released [...]

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Fake iTunes e-mail leads to drive-by download

December 24, 2010

Thanks to Help Net Security for this one… I’ve pretty much copied their post, as it’s important to get it right. E-mails purportedly coming from iTunes and bearing “iTunes account may be suspended” in the subject line have been hitting inboxes in the last few days. “Dear iTunes Customer, it is possible that your account [...]

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Gawker Breach – users beware

December 15, 2010

Jason O’Grady posted today on ZDNet a warning about a major security breech: 188,000 passwords were compromised. I’ve copied or paraphrased some of the article here, but please, read the article yourself. Change your passwords if you are a user of the Gawker network, including sites like Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Deadspin, io9 [...]

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Holiday Scams! Beware…

December 15, 2010

Thank you to Joan Goodchild, csoonline.com and Macworld.com for posting an article about 6 scams going around this holdiay season. I’ve posted part of the Macworld article here, but urge you to go to Macworld.com and csoonline.com to read the full articles. Beth Jones, senior threat researcher with Sophos, says “The two-week mark before Christmas [...]

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