Flaw in Zoom Video Conferencing Software Lets Websites Hijack Mac Webcams

If you use Zoom video conferencing software on your Mac computer—then beware—any website you’re visiting in your web browser can turn on your device camera without your permission.

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Website of Popular Mac Software Hacked to Spread Malware

If you have recently downloaded the popular open source video transcoder app HandBrake on your Mac, there are chances that your computer is infected with a notorious Remote Access Trojan (RAT).

The HandBrake team issued a security alert on Saturday, w… Continue reading Website of Popular Mac Software Hacked to Spread Malware

Critical Flaw in ESET Antivirus Exposes Mac Users to Remote Hacking

What could be more exciting for hackers than exploiting a vulnerability in a widely used software without having to struggle too much?

One such easy-to-exploit, but critical vulnerability has been discovered in ESET’s antivirus software that could all… Continue reading Critical Flaw in ESET Antivirus Exposes Mac Users to Remote Hacking

Threatpost News Wrap, February 13, 2017

RSA 2017 is previewed and last week’s report on iOS apps being vulnerable to interception attacks, macro malware coming to MacOS, and new Uber open source module are discussed. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, February 13, 2017

Mac OS X Ransomware KeRanger Is Linux Encoder Trojan

So there’s been a fair bit of noise this past week about the Mac OS X Ransomware, the first of its’ kind called KeRanger. It also happens to be the first popular Mac malware of any form for some time. It’s also a lesson to all the Apple fanbois that their OS is not impervious […]

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