ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

A server belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was commandeered by hackers who used it to launch attacks against other websites as part of a larger drive-by download campaign, according to antivirus vendor BitDefender.

This week the respectful thoughts of many turned to Steve Jobs, the legendary co-founder of Apple, who passed away at the age of 56.

When it comes to security, Apple computers were remarkable for the kinds of troubles they largely didn't have in comparison to Microsoft-based computers with their high rate of enterprise adoption that the Apple Macintosh never achieved.

Microsoft operating systems and applications over time have been relentlessly targeted by attackers if only because Microsoft products constituted a large field of malware opportunity due to their huge market acceptance, plus the number of vulnerabilities discovered in them month after month.