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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week

by Anna Brading on May 20, 2013 | Leave a comment

In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.

Mac malware found in malformed Word documents - is China to blame?

by Graham Cluley on April 25, 2013 | 2 Comments

Minority groups in China appear to have been targeted by a Mac malware attack, delivered via boobytrapped Word documents.

Who could possibly be interested in targeting their computers?

The biggest Mac malware attack of all time - blogger names suspected mastermind

by Graham Cluley on April 3, 2013 | 13 Comments

Suspected mastermind behind biggest Mac malware attack of all time

Award-winning security blogger Brian Krebs has shared details of his investigation into who might have been behind Flashback - which hit more than 600,000 Mac computers in early 2012

Apple ships OS X 10.8.3 - 11 remote code execution vulns patched, Snow Leopard and Lion get fixes too

by Paul Ducklin on March 15, 2013 | 7 Comments

Apple has shipped the latest point release of its flagship Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) operating system.

There are plenty of security fixes in there, which Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7) users get too, in standalone security updates.

INFOGRAPHIC: Users weighed down by multiple gadgets - survey reveals the most carried devices

by Kimberly Truong on March 14, 2013 | 4 Comments

Just how many devices does the average person carry on them? Which country loves their laptops? And who will come out on top - iPhone or Android? See what our survey says about your most favorite gadgets.

Adobe tells Windows and Mac users to install critical security updates for Flash and AIR

by Graham Cluley on March 13, 2013 | 6 Comments

Adobe tells Windows and Mac users to install critical security updates for Adobe Flash and Air

Computer users should be getting used to security updates for Adobe Flash by now - after all, this is the fourth in as many weeks.

Make sure your computers are protected as soon as possible.

Lessons to learn from the UGNazi hacking attacks against Mat Honan and Cloudflare

by Graham Cluley on February 27, 2013 | 1 Comment

"You do have to worry about your computer security, but you also need to worry about everybody else's"

Technology journalist Mat Honan and Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince have something in common - they've both been hacked by the UGNazi hacktivist group.

And what they told the RSA Conference spells bad news for those of us who love to use the internet and embrace cloud-based technologies in our personal and work lives.

Apple's own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack

by Chester Wisniewski on February 19, 2013 | 6 Comments

Apple released a statement today acknowledging that they were victims of the same attackers that Facebook talked about last week. A zero-day Java vulnerability infected Apple Mac developers through a drive-by attack.

More Mac malware attacking minority groups in China

by Paul Baccas on February 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

A targeted Mac malware attack strikes a minority group in China, exploiting an old Microsoft Word vulnerability.

Apple (again) washes its hands of the Java mess

by Lisa Vaas on February 1, 2013 | 13 Comments

Apple's thrown in the towel on the Java mess and has, for the second time in two weeks, blocked all versions of Java on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later.

Serious security holes fixed in Opera - but Mac App Store users left at risk again

by Graham Cluley on January 30, 2013 | 2 Comments

It should go without saying that if you use Opera, you should update to version 12.13 as soon as possible.

But... what if you didn't get your copy of Opera from the official website?

What if, instead, you acquired your version of Opera for Mac from Apple's Mac App Store?

How do you compare to Steve Wozniak? Take our survey and (maybe) win a new iPad Mini

by Kimberly Truong on January 16, 2013 | 16 Comments

Last year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak showed off his travel backpack to Gizmodo readers. He needed a whopping seven containers to get through airport security!

Question is how do the rest of us compare. Tell us what you lug around and have a chance of winning an iPad Mini.

Apple and Mozilla - 'Just say no to Java'

by Chester Wisniewski on January 11, 2013 | 12 Comments

After the recent discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's Java Web Start plugin Apple and Mozilla are now disabling Java by default until fixes are made available.