There’s been quite some commotion regarding the Mac and its relative security since Trojan horse Mac Defender appeared on the scene earlier this month. Now Apple’s weighing in, with a Knowledge Base ...
Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your ...
The biggest threat to our security when using a Mac is hackers and viruses. Once we identify that our Mac has been hit with malware, we must act quickly to remove it before it corrupts our files and ...
Overview For many years, Apple users believed that Macs were virtually immune to viruses and malware. This myth arose partly ...
Our big concern here is that sometimes a company can be lead by its marketing department who make promises the engineering team can’t deliver. We felt this was the case when we first looked at the ...
If you own an Intel-based Mac, watch out. There’s a malware strain that’s after your data. It’s called MetaStealer, and it slipped right past the radar of many Mac experts. Gone are the days when ...
Apple (AAPL) has finally deigned to help users infected with the Mac Defender malware. It climbed down from its lofty, pedantic pedestal after days of reports that it was refusing to help Trojan ...
A dangerous new malware campaign is targeting Mac users worldwide. Security researchers at CrowdStrike uncovered Shamos, a new variant of the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), developed by a cybercriminal ...
All right, Mac users — the day of reckoning has come. Thanks to a well-documented flaw that Apple didn't patch for three months, a nasty piece of malware called Mac Flashback seems to have infected ...