lose/lose: Is it a Game? Is it Malware? It’s Both!
Intego’s Virus Monitoring Center has come across an odd new program. Called lose/lose, this is a kind of alien-killer...
You’ve probably heard it before: “Macs don’t get viruses.” For years, Apple’s reputation for security has led users to believe their Macs are immune to malware, phishing, or other online threats. This belief isn’t entirely unfounded. macOS is a secure operating system with several built-in protections. But that doesn’t mean it’s bulletproof. In recent years,...
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...
You can connect a surprising variety of things to iPhones and iPads via their USB-C (or Lightning) ports, including storage devices, SD card readers,...
If you've got an old Mac, you might be able to repurpose it to make it useful again. Here are several ideas on how...
Cookie-Bite proves what we already knew: browser extensions can be very dangerous to your security and privacy. Learn how malware extensions can steal session cookies and let hackers sign into your accounts.
Intego’s Virus Monitoring Center has come across an odd new program. Called lose/lose, this is a kind of alien-killer...
The Mozilla foundation has released the latest update to its Firefox web browser, version 3.5.4. This update contains eleven...
We discussed a new Adobe Reader and Acrobat vulnerability here a few days ago, one that Adobe promised would...
As some Apple discussion board threads have revealed, a number of Snow Leopard users have had serious data loss...
In the minds of most computer users, the term “computer virus” includes many types of “malware”, not all of...
Security & Privacy + Software & Apps
Yet another Adobe Reader vulnerability has been found, which could allow hackers to take control of compromised computers. According...
In the Windows world, one major annoyance is rogue antivirus programs, that pretend to scan PCs, then tell users...
French web site Mac4Ever is reporting that a flaw in the iPhone allows apps installed on the device to...
More news from the VB2009 conference. A malware researcher made a presentation describing how a Russian network of “spam...
Intego’s people attending the VB2009 conference are too busy to be able to blog about their activities, but Malware...