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Black Hat 2011: Macs in the age of the APT

04

Aug

2011

Hello everyone, I have the privilege of being the only Naked Security writer attending this years Black Hat conference in sunny Las vegas. This also means I have the honor of trying to provide you with the most interesting developments presented at the event. This morning I attended an interesting presentation titled "Macs in the […]

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Sophos Security Threat Report Update reveals 2011’s top threats so far

02

Aug

2011

Sophos has just published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report [PDF]. Highlights of the report include the following: a 60% increase in malware over 2010, with Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day – that is one every 0.5 seconds. 19,000 malicious webpages are now identified daily, with 80% being pages on […]

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Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus?

25

Jul

2011

Could hackers set fire to your Apple battery with a virus? Some recent news stories seem to suggest that they might. One uncompromising headline certainly implies that battery-based malware – whether inferno-related or not – is an inevitability, trumpeting proudly that “Apple laptop batteries are the new attack vector.” That remains to be seen, as […]

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