Category: Security

Another cloud service outage today

Today Gmail service was disrupted for just over an hour, causing about 5.25 million account holders be denied access to their mail during that time window. Google admins have given no indication what the cause for the outage was. The only statement Google gave at that time was: “We’ve implemented a fix and users should …

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Another Trojan targeting MAC’s spotted “In the Wild”

Another Trojan that is designed specifically for Mac OS X has been spotted in the wild. Just like the Flashback Trojan this one exploits Java vulnerabilities. This new Trojan requires no user interaction to infect an Apple Macintosh Computer just like Flashback. Sophos is calling the new Trojan “SX/Sabpab-A”, while Kaspersky is referring to it …

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Apple releases update to resolve new Malware issue

On the Apple support  page you can now download an update to fix the “Backdoor.Flashback” malware. Basically, this is an update for the Mac’s Java support, which downloads a new version, Java SE 6 1.6.0_31. The new version supersedes all previous versions of Java for OS X 10.7. In addition to removing Flashback, the update …

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