The obscurity that granted Macs lower risk for unauthorized manipulation is now gone. The reason is simple: Malicious hackers follow the money. Read More

Microsoft yesterday kicked off what it called a “two-year countdown” to the death of Windows XP, its longest-lived operating system. Read More

A security flaw that exposes iOS and possibly Android smartphone users to identity theft has been discovered in mobile apps for Facebook, Dropbox, and LinkedIn. Read More

An estimated 600,000 or more Macs are currently compromised and part of a massive botnet thanks to the Flashback Trojan. To put the size of the threat in some perspective, the Flashback Trojan botnet is even bigger than the massive Conficker botnet…relatively speaking. Read More

More than 600,000 Macs have been infected with a new version of the Flashback Trojan horse that’s being installed on people’s computers with the help of Java exploits, security researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web said on Wednesday. Read More

Questions remain over a computer intrusion at Global Payments Inc. that exposed data on at least 1.5 million credit and debit card holders. Read More.

Security researchers have encountered new email-based targeted attacks that exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to install a remote access Trojan horse program on Mac OS systems. Read More

Columnist Kevin Fogarty says when users can buy sophisticated data services to support not only gadgets, but applications, too, that changes the role and goals of IT. Read More

Despite rising concern that cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, hackers used relatively simple methods in more than 95% of data breaches in 2011, according to a report compiled by Verizon. Read More

Industry stalwart Virus Bulletin released sobering report about state of commercial spam filters. Bottom line: We may be in for another round of problems. Read More