Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 10 at 6:02 pm PT
Apple is building software to detect and remove the Flashback malware that has turned 600,000-odd Macs into a trouble-making botnet.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 10 at 12:59 pm PT
Kasperky Labs launches a Web-based tool to detect and remove the infamous Flashfake malware. Still no sign of the long-predicted security apocalypse on the Mac.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 6 at 1:57 pm PT
Chatter about a new Trojan affecting Macs fails to acknowledge where the real vulnerability lies: With Oracle’s Java and not Apple’s OS X itself.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in on May 9, 2011 at 4:35 pm PT
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Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT
It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
While BoomTown is usually tired of the overexposed Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston, she is pretty funny in this online commercial for SmartWater, in which she tries make a video that “turns into a virus” by taking advantage of a number of viral Internet video trends.
If only her movies were this clever.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 29, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on just how safe are Wi-Fi hotspots and should Mac owners worry about computer viruses.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 29, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT
A new Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and has the potential to send a significant amount of personal data from cellphones to remote servers. Mobile security specialist Lookout warned that it is the most sophisticated cellular security threat seen thus far.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 22, 2010 at 5:03 pm PT
Wireless security specialist Lookout Mobile Security has returned to the funding well, scooping up $19.5 million in Series C funding. As part of the latest round, Index Ventures is adding its name to the roster of backers, with partner Mike Volpi joining Lookout’s board.
