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Depuis les aventures du malware Flashback sur Mac OS X, la sécurité des Mac est redevenue un sujet à sensations. Les éditeurs de solutions de sécurité s’en sont donnés à cœur joie, l’occasion leur étant fournie de mettre en pratique des ...
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Oxford Muses on Mac Flashback: Worst Outbreak Since Blaster
So how bad was last month's Mac Flashback outbreak and who suffered the most? Our guess: it was bad, and university IT help desks.
And it looks like our guess might not be far off the mark.
===> Oxford University Computing Services' network security team (aka OxCERT) has written that they dealt "with what is probably the biggest outbreak since Blaster struck the Windows world all the way back in the summer of 2003." <===
OxCERT dealt with around 1000 incidents for Blaster. They've seen several hundred Flashback incidents… "and they keep on coming."
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Vous croyez toujours que votre Mac est sécurisé, car les PC Microsoft tombent sous les virus et les vers, mais pas les Macs ? Réveillez-vous ! Cette année a connu la première compromission majeure de Macs à travers le monde (*). Qu'en est-il du vôtre ?
Ainsi, utilisateurs de Mac, sachez que, d'une part mettre à jour en temps opportun, et d'autre part utiliser un logiciel anti-virus sont également bons pour votre Mac (et vos nerfs).
Gardez votre système d'exploitation à jour en utilisant le mécanisme de "Mise à jour de logiciels..." qui est accessible dans le menu "Apple". Utilisez les droits "administrateur" uniquement lorsque c'est nécessaire, sinon, conservez les droits "utilisateur" restreints.
Mais notez aussi qu'Apple peut encore s'améliorer: il leur a fallu des mois pour publier le correctif approprié - ce qui est long comparé au cycle mensuel de mise à jour de Microsoft.
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Flashback Malware Robs Google of $10,000/Day in Ad Revenue
The authors of MacOS malware 'Flashback' are reaping an estimated $10,000 a day by through an additional component, Symantec reports.
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Antivirus firm Symantec has published a new blog post examining how the Flashback malware affecting hundreds of thousand of Macs has been generating...
Flashback Malware's Ad-Click Hijacking Detailed, Could Reap $10,000/Day
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A pair of high-profile malware attacks have given Apple a crash course in security response.
===> A MUST READ for Apple users!!! <===
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New details about the extent of the Mac-specific Flashback malware epidemic emerged today.
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Cyber criminals using same exploit to infect Windows and Mac OS machines with new malware...
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Apple a des leçons à prendre chez Microsoft en matière de sécurité, c'est le contast dressé par Eugene Kaspersky, le PDG de l'éditeur de logiciels spécialisés qui porte son nom.
===> Utilisateurs Mac, apprenez la sécurité informatique dès à présent ! <===
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Via Gust MEES
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Malware like Flashback, which has infected hundreds of thousands of Macs, could become commonplace as cyber attackers target Apple...
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A new, sneakier variant of the Flashback malware was uncovered yesterday by the French security firm Intego.
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One in every five Mac computers is harbouring some kind of malware, a new study from the experts at Sophos has revealed.
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Fresher students at University of Iowa lately were unable to access the other UI computers when the Flashback virus reportedly infected the campus network.
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Apple may have appeared to have pulled off a coup in persuading Oracle to maintain Java for Mac but can Oracle be trusted to get it right?
The emergence of the Flashback Trojan - which exploited a vulnerability in Mac OS X's version of Java - earlier this year led to a lot of flak for both Oracle and Apple. The vulnerability was known about and fixed in the Windows and Linux versions of Java, but remained exposed in OS X for several more weeks.
===> The fact that Apple is ultimately responsible for maintaining Java on OS X saw Apple's ability to protect its users questioned. <===
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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Selon Symantec, les auteurs du malware Flashback ont pu gagner jusqu'à 10 000 $ par jour au plus fort de l'infection, qui a touché environ 1 % des Mac en circulation.
===> Un business lucratif qui explique pourquoi, sa popularité aidant, le Mac est lui aussi devenu une proie pour les hackers. <===
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Microsoft has detected a new piece of malware targeting Apple OS X computers that exploits a vulnerability in the Office productivity suite patched nearly three years ago.
Microsoft advised those who use Microsoft Office 2004 or 2008 for Mac or the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac to ensure those products have applied the patch.
===> "In conclusion, we can see that Mac OS X is not safe from malware," Oh wrote. "Statistically speaking, as this operating system gains in consumer usage, attacks on the platform will increase." <===
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Dr. Web's count of Macs actively infected with Flashback over time. The "A" marks Apple's release of its Flashback removal tool, and the "B" marks Dr. Web's discovery of another variant of Flashback that led to an increase in its infection count.
===> Flashback has been used for click fraud, as detailed by Symantec’s researchers. The malware redirected traffic from Google search ads to its own pay-per-click ads, generating as much as $10,000 a day. <===
Even with its command and control servers disabled, the infected machines continue to engage in that traffic-hijacking. And with nearly half a million users still infected, Flashback’s authors are still likely profiting from their scheme.
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With the recent glut of high profile Mac-based malware like MacDefender and Flashback, it’s easy to forget that Macintosh computers (and Mac malware) have been kicking around for more than thirty years – longer, even, than Windows malware.
In fact, the first documented Mac virus actually predated some of the first PC viruses by a good four years. While conventional wisdom has always assumed that Macs are inherently safer than PCs, wider adoption of Macs in recent years has given rise to new and more sophisticated threats, with many suggesting that Apple’s honeymoon with malware authors may be over.
As this slideshow of Mac Malware through the years shows, however, Apple machines are no strangers to malicious software.
Read more and don't forget "Nobody is perfect ;)"...
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A trojan that hijacks how your computer accesses the Internet could cut off thousands of machines this summer.
There’s a trojan out there that tricks computers — both PCs and Macs — into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers. Even though the trojan’s creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected.
===> For those machines, the Internet will cease to exist on July 9. <===
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A new malware attack is targeting Mac computers with a Python-based backdoor Trojan.
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Mac computers are not immune to viruses...
SECURITY VENDOR Sophos' senior technology consultant Graham Cluley warns that it's time for Apple users to take notice of the threats facing Mac OS X operating systems by securing their computers with antivirus software.
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Apple is a decade behind Microsoft in terms of Mac malware security, research firm Kaspersky has contentiously suggested, something it predicts the Cupertino firm will quickly realize in a fast-approaching storm of rogue software.
“I think they are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security” company CEO Eugene Kaspersky told Computer Business Review at a security event this week, predicting a torrent of malware is incoming for OS X and that Apple will have to pull its boots up in order to handle it.
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The recent Flashback malware attack, which at its height infected more than 600,000 Macs- or more than 1 percent of all systems in use worldwide- not only was the largest such incident involving Apple systems, but also the latest in a string of... Via Gust MEES
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One in five Mac computers is likely to carry Windows malware, but only one in 36 is likely to be infected with malware specifically designed for the Mac OS X, according to study performed by antivirus firm Sophos.
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Trend Micro annonce les résultats de son premier « intelligence report » de l’année sur les tendances et menaces informatiques.
===> Apple a dépassé Oracle, Google et Microsoft en nombre de vulnérabilités de sécurité identifiées avec un total de 91. <===
Oracle arrive en seconde position avec 78, Google en troisième avec 73 et enfin Microsoft en quatrième avec 43 vulnérabilités identifiées. Indépendamment d’une plus grande fragilité par rapport aux virus, Apple a fournit un nombre record de patchs durant le mois de mars dernier.
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