Apple has never had much trouble grabbing attention for its Macintosh operating system. This time, however, it may be attracting the wrong kind.
A university systems engineer in Wisconsin is giving hackers until Friday to break into his Mac.
McAfee has launched a Mac security product, saying that Apple Computer's OS X is "just as vulnerable" as other operating systems are to targeted attacks.
Apple Computer fans have long loved to point out the safety of using Mac OS X, which has mostly been left alone by hackers. But the recent arrival of three threats has some asking: Is the software's charmed security life over?
It doesn't appear that Symantec CEO John Thompson's next computer will run Windows.
Apple Computer said on Wednesday that it has released a public beta version of Boot Camp, software that enables Microsoft Windows XP to run natively on Intel-based Macs.
Full instructions are available on the Internet for how to fool Apple's SoftwareUpdate feature and install a backdoor on any Mac running OS X. Worse, there appears to be no patch
The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon in the US.
A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
The scalp of Mac OS X has been waved trophy-like after being hacked in controlled environments, yet security researchers are hard pressed remembering the last time a Mac was compromised in the wild.
The release of Apple's latest security patches prove conclusively that there's no such thing as an operating system impervious to security risks, especially when it comes to malware.
Mac-compatible systems running on standardised hardware will start shipping in seven days, according to a US firm which claims to have developed them but skeptics doubt whether the system exists.
Apple's reputation for offering greater security than rival operating systems such as Windows will come under the spotlight in January.
A new adware program that silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens Web browser windows is unlikely to create a security problem.
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