This weekend we saw another spate of Facebook messages claiming to link to a BBC News report of the death of Lady Gaga. Of course, the claims are untrue – and Lady Gaga is still alive. But that isn’t stopping Facebook scammers from creating money-making websites that claim that the…
New Mac Malware Fools Customers, But Threat Still Relatively Small
The 11-inch MacBook Air costs $1,000. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com A new piece of malware has caused an uptick in Apple customers reporting infected machines, renewing a timeless debate on the state of Macintosh security versus Windows. The trojan horse is called Mac Defender. It’s a web pop-up containing a spoof…
Browser plug-ins still easy target thanks to poor updating
Browser plug-ins and extensions are still not being updated often enough to close known security vulnerabilities, cloud security company Zscaler has reported. The company’s findings in its latest State of the Web report for Q2 have become a common refrain from a variety of sources that have studied the issue….