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Apple's security has always been a tumultuous area of conversation among Mac and iPhone aficionados. On the one hand, you are always hearing things like "the Mac is easier to break into than Windows 7" or the "iPhone isn't safe enough for Enterprise!" But when has there ever been an outbreak among Apple machines?

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LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]