There is a new Mac Trojan horse masquerades as virus scanner – read about that here . This is another example of social engineering – tricking users into making security mistakes.
Users looking for legitimate protection against viruses on their Macs might be duped into downloading and installing this. Essentially this is ‘ransomware’. It requires payment to ‘stop’ the ‘infection’. AND the payment information is often then sold to other nefarious people.
Remember that NO operating system is immune to attack. And since every system is utilized by humans they remain the biggest weak link – humans that is.
Also in other security news the NSA has released some good advice and documents for better security practices with your home network, and Operating Systems (including Mac OSX).
Read about that here. [via PCMAG Security watch blog].
Nearly all of this contains information that I and other security people have been saying for years but is well worth reading.
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