Viruses on the Mac — self replicating and spreading malware — are nonexistent, though there seems to be no shortage of trojans, such as the infamous FlashBack Trojan which infected hundreds of thousands of Macs. Whether the current threat is …

Our favorite fruit has done the right thing. Although it’s been over a year since Apple last updated Leopard security and more than two-and-a-half years since the last OS X 10.5 update was released, here we have fresh patches covering …

Although Apple has gotten grief for being slow to issue patches for security vulnerabilities, the biggest problem facing users is their near steadfast refusal to install the available updates. With Safari 5.1.7, Apple’s taking a proactive approach by disabling old …

Our friends in Redmond have been scrambling to patch a series of security and bug issues. This time around Microsoft is hoping to wrangle a memory issue that can result in malicious code running on your Mac, which most definitely …

Sweating the small stuff is what this Apple mobile operating system update is all about or, “ah-boot,” as my hoser friends say. Actually, I don’t have any friends on the more polite and culturally adept side of Lake Erie.
However, if …

It is one thing for Apple to allow weeks to pass before issuing a patch for the BackDoor FlashBack trojan and quite another for the great majority of Mac users not to install it, which is apparently the current state …

But only one in 36, or a bit fewer than 3 percent, have been infected by Mac specific malware and the great majority of those were infected by a FlashBack trojan variant. It’s no time to let down our guard …

International hackers ran a scam that co-opted DNS (domain name server) functionality on millions of user computers, including Macs. When the FBI took that network down in November 2011, agents realized they couldn’t just shut the hackers’ servers off, as …

I have been beating this drum for years, though it’s only recently become fashionable to recommend every Mac user install and use antivirus software. But that’s just one of the free and easy steps you should take to secure your …

About 10 days ago, security experts — the kind that make their bread selling antivirus software — warned that more than 600,000 Macs had been infected by FlashBack. Depending on who’s doing the counting that’s 1 percent of Apple’s Mac …