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Apple’s Macs Hit By Malware; Are iPhones Next?–”LISTEN”

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/136935143/apples-macs-hit-by-malware-are-iphones-next

June 6, 2011

Apple‘s computers have been able to avoid most serious hacking attacks, but that era may be over. As Steve Jobs and his colleagues prepared for this week’s developers conference, the company was also taking steps to stop a malware “phishing” program.

The ploy, says technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky of Bloomberg News, uses an infected website to install a piece of software on Apple computers. The software then pops up a new window, with an urgent message about a security vulnerability.

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