Research firm Gartner has issued a warning to companies using Mac OS to guard against malicious code attacks and spyware.
A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.
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Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors.
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Security software vendors may soon side with US government authorities and intentionally fail to report "certain spyware" to customers if ordered by a court to remain quiet, according to a survey of leading firms.
Bud Tribble, a key engineer behind Mac OS X, explains that the security flap around Apple is more hysteria than reality.
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