Five OS X security threats that fizzled

Ars Technica
Apr 15, 2012, 1:00 pm151 pts
Macs have been relatively safe from the kind of viruses that plagued Windows users through the last couple decades. But once it was revealed that a variation of Flashback was able to create a botnet of more than half a million Macs thanks to an unpatched Java vulnerability users stood up and took notice. OS X…

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