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Your Mac’s Password Can Be Slurped from a FireWire Port

Jul

2011

Passware, a company that provides computer forensics tools, has released a product that can grab your password via a FireWire port in seconds. The company’s new forensic toolkit captures data from your Mac’s memory, analyzes it quickly, and reveals passwords for your user account, and for your keychain, if that password is different. And it […]

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Apple releases Mac OS X version 10.6.8 with many security fixes

Jun

2011

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.8 for Snow Leopard (Security Update 2011-004). Among many improvements it also addresses many security vulnerabilities in the operating system. The 10.6.8 release also protects against the latest Mac Defender malware and its known variants, including “Mac Security”, “Mac Protector” and “MacGuard”. This problem was initially addressed in the […]

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More Malware for Mac

Jun

2011

We’ve recently reported about a blackhat SEO campaign that targeted not only Windows users, but Mac users as well. It’s just a few weeks after that, but the role of Mac users as potential victims in the threat landscape has been increasingly established, as more and more threats targeting Mac users are being found. FAKEAV […]

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