VideoLAN Releases Security Update to VLC Media Player
VideoLAN has released version 1.1.9 of its popular VLC media player, a tool for playing back multiple audio and...

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Apple has just released critically urgent security updates—including macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 and iOS 18.4.1—to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited in...

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Executive Summary In March 2026, Intego Antivirus Labs investigated a macOS malware campaign delivering the OSX/Amos stealer. During analysis, the infection chain led from stripped Mach-O binaries and heavily obfuscated shell scripts to an unusual final payload that appeared...
VideoLAN has released version 1.1.9 of its popular VLC media player, a tool for playing back multiple audio and...
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Reports are coming in of a number of Skype users getting calls via Skype telling them that they have...
makeuseof is running a contest, together with Intego, to win one of 25 copies of Washing Machine, the great...
Many of the articles here on the Mac Security Blog inform you of security updates to software. These may...
Last week, Epsilon, a major e-mail marketing firm, suffered a serious data breach, whereby hackers obtained e-mail addresses and...
Security & Privacy + Software & Apps
Google’s Chrome browser has added a built-in check for plugins to determine which are out of date. If it...
We reported on a barely-threatening remote administration tool, called BlackHole RAT, in late February. At the time, this was...
Intego today announced that Washing Machine, the company’s popular program that cleans up files left behind by web browsers...
Hot on the heels of an update just over a week ago, Google has issued another security fix for...
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