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Windows iPhone users: Watch out for Penguin Panic

by Mark Rowland on Sep 18, 2008 at 05:30 PM

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Coolest Virus Ever!

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Apr 28, 2008 at 09:10 AM

In what is perhaps the coolest thing I have ever seen, Troika has created a “virus” for Mac, though its status as a virus is debatable. It lives on a USB key, and you have to have physical access to the computer to install it. The virus was created in… Continue Reading »

Computer users expect more Mac attacks

by Nicholas Montgomery on Feb 20, 2008 at 09:11 AM

Mac users have been free of virus’ for about 31 years now, but 93% expect that Macs will have more malware and virus attacks. Sophos, a computer security company, conducted a survey with about 350 computer users and they believed that Apple’s Macintosh computers will be targeted more frequently in… Continue Reading »

Trojan released for Jailbroken iPhones

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Jan 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM

F-Secure picked up on the fake 1.1.3 firmware prep that has been circulating on the third party iPhone apps download sites. The fake application was a trojan that when installed did nothing but when uninstalled removed quite a few third party applications. The app, ironically, was created by an 11… Continue Reading »

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