JS/Redir-B – Viruses and Spyware – Threat Analyses – Threat Center – Sophos. I was stumbling today and I got this on a popular site. Sophos for Mac removed it easily. I have to say that Sophos has really paid for itself. It would be a bigger hassle to remove this manually.
This is an interesting look back for some perspective on threats to Macintosh security that turned out to be nothing. We have been fortunate that we haven’t had to suffer like Windows users.
via Five OS X security threats that fizzled – StumbleUpon.
Apple Ignored Warning on Address-Book Access. This is interesting. It seems hard to believe that Apple wouldn’t have realized this earlier. Perhaps they are innocent here. I don’t know.
Cell Providers Selling Your Data to Police – StumbleUpon. This isn’t a surprise. You don’t get something for nothing. I wonder how much money they are getting?
Online dating scammers looking for money, not love. I have experienced this in the past as well. The most popular thing is someone saying that they saw your ad on a dating site and they find you incredibly attractive. If that isn’t a red flag, I don’t know what is.
Then they usually write you so much detail about themselves and ask you to contact them back. An attractive and often revealing photo of themselves is included and they act as though they are local to where you live. Spelling and grammar is usually bad and other obvious errors show.
