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OS X Leopard... more than two million copies...

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OS X Leopard... Latest news !!

Cupertino (CA) – Apple today said that the latest version of its Mac OS X 10.5 operating system exceeded the launch sales of its predecessor “Tiger”. More than two million copies were delivered to customers over the weekend.

Read the article here after : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Leopard-OS-sales,news-26710.html


Found on : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/

Apple Mac OS : Highly Critical Vulnerability

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Apple Mac OS X UDIF Memory Corruption Vulnerability

- Highly critical - From remote

Issued 1 day ago. Updated 12 hours ago.

LMH has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Macarena Mac OS X malware - no need to panic

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Proof-of-concept virus does not pose a threat.

Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have advised Mac OS X users not to panic following the discovery of a new proof-of-concept virus.

The worm, dubbed OSX/Macarena, has caused headlines in the press because new Macintosh malware is so rarely encountered compared to malicious code designed for Windows PCs. At the time of writing Sophos has received no reports of any customers who have encountered the malware, and only source code versions have been uncovered.

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Mac OS X, Parasitic Virus Found

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New OSX parasitic virus found

Symantec report proof-of-concept file infector for Mac.

Analysts at Symantec have received samples of a proof-of-concept file infector for the Apple Mac OSX platform. The virus, dubbed 'OSX/Macarena' after the mid-nineties chart hit and dance craze, is capable of infecting any files executed once it is running - as long as they are in the same directory as the original viral file. The parasite has no payload other than replication.

This new finding is unlikely to put an end to the long-running debate over Mac security, recently stirred up by the the iPod virus issue and the resulting war of words between Apple and Microsoft,' said John Hawes, Technical Consultant at Virus Bulletin. 'With its fairly limited capabilities, Symantec have classed the finding as very low risk, but Mac users should hopefully be reminded that they aren't invulnernable to malware, and should take the usual precautions.

Symantec's analysis of the virus is here, and a blog entry from Peter Ferrie on the findings is here.


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