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Over 10 million credit cards may have been stolen by criminals who compromised a credit card processing company last month. Read on to find out what happened and what actions you may wish to take t...

A backdoor Trojan horse, which would allow a remote hacker to access your Mac computer without your knowledge and potentially snoop on your files and activity, has been discovered hidden inside a b...

The Mac Imuler Trojan uses images of FHM supermodel Irina Shayk to do its dirty work.

 

Somehow I doubt that Mac users are any smarter than their Windows cousins when it comes to resisting temptation.

 

We're all human, after all. And there is a (probably significant) proportion of the population which isn't adverse to searching the web for nude pictures of supermodels.

 

Of course, the bad guys who spread malware know about human weakness all too well - and exploit it regularly to trick computer users into clicking on files and installing malicious code that exposes them to risks.

 

===> By default, Mac OS X doesn't display file extensions. Which means, that Mac users might be duped into believing that the file they are about to click on is a JPG image, rather than an application. <===

 

 

If you work in IT, you’ve probably been here already. Someone important is proudly clutching a shiny new toy and asking you that vague, difficult question: "Can I use this?". So how do you respond?

If you're careless about what applications you allow to access your Twitter account, don't be surprised if you find the bad guys are spamming tweets out in your name without your permission.

 

Here's just a small sample of the messages we saw earlier today, claiming to link to free iPhone 4 offers or tools to help you find out who had unfollowed your Twitter account.

 

Some of the messages posted from innocent users' Twitter accounts have claimed that it's easy to get your hands on a free iPhone 4:

 

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ENISA conducted some research to examine the economic dimension of privacy. Put simply: would you pay a bit extra for additional privacy?