MAC malware! #pauto #macintosh @apple

July 16, 2013

You don't always think of control and automation and the Apple Macintosh in the same sentence, but in reality the Mac was the first PC used for control, back in the stone age when National Instruments first wrote Labview. Windows had not come out, and there was no other way to make a graphical user interface yet.

One of the things that has set the Mac apart for decades is the extreme concentration of malware authors on the PC, leaving the Mac basically malware free.

Until now.

Greg Hale at ISSSource.com has an article about a new piece of malware targeting Macs:

You don't always think of control and automation and the Apple Macintosh in the same sentence, but in reality the Mac was the first PC used for control, back in the stone age when National Instruments first wrote Labview. Windows had not come out, and there was no other way to make a graphical user interface yet.

One of the things that has set the Mac apart for decades is the extreme concentration of malware authors on the PC, leaving the Mac basically malware free.

Until now.

Greg Hale at ISSSource.com has an article about a new piece of malware targeting Macs:

http://www.isssource.com/mac-malware-hides-file-extension/ 

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