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iPhone, Mac owners: How to stymie hackers extorting Apple, threatening to wipe devices

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Mar

2017

Hackers claiming to have hundreds of millions of iCloud credentials have threatened to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if Apple does not fork over $150,000 within two weeks. “This group is known for getting accounts and credentials, they have gotten credentials in the past,” said Lamar Bailey, director of security research and development […]

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New macOS ransomware spotted in the wild

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Feb

2017

A new file-encrypting ransomware program for macOS is being distributed through bittorrent websites and users who fall victim to it won’t be able to recover their files, even if they pay. Crypto ransomware programs for macOS are rare. This is the second such threat found in the wild so far, and it’s a poorly designed […]

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Safari update patches many vulnerabilities

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Jul

2011

Apple released new versions of the Safari browser for Windows and MacOS. Safari 5.1 for Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later, Windows 7, Vista, XP and Safari 5.0.6 for Mac OS X v10.5.8 are now available and address a multitude of vulnerabilities and bugs. Some of these vulnerabilities allow cross site scripting attacks, may lead […]

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