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Apple provides users of its OS X operating system with a Software Update feature which is run at defined intervals, but which may be accessed manually at any time by visiting the (?) menu and selecting Software Update. If you have set your Software Update preferences to run weekly then you see a list of […]

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The news of the outbreak of BackDoor.Flashback.39 that has infected over 650 000 computers running Mac OS X quickly spread throughout the world, causing a strong public response. The Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web that was the first to issue a warning concerning this threat presents the brief BackDoor.Flashback.39 outbreak chronology. February 2012 Oracle released […]

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After intercepting one of the domain names used by the Flashback/Flashfake Mac Trojan and setting up a special sinkhole server last Friday, we managed to gather stats on the scale and geographic distribution of the related botnet. We published information on this in our previous blog entry. We continued to intercept domain names after setting […]

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