Macs and malware - a Smashing Security splinter
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Do you run an anti-virus on your Mac? Should you?
In this special "splinter" episode (or should it be a "shard"?) regular hosts Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and Vanja Svajcer discuss the malware threat for Apple Macs and MacBooks.
SHOW NOTES:
- 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback trojan, 274 in Cupertino
- Flashback to the biggest Mac malware attack of all time - Is it still a threat?
- Hackers target Iranian activists’ Mac devices with revamped malware
- Microsoft Office macro malware targets Macs
- 12 security suites for Mac OS X put to the test
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Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer.
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| 0:00.0 | Smashing Security, Splinter episode, Max and Malware, with Carol Terry O, Van Yars Schweitzer and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello everybody and welcome to yet another splinter episode of Smashing Security, where we look at the computer security issues which we're all facing and how we can best protect against them. |
| 0:26.7 | My name is Graham Cluley, and I'm joined by my pals, Carol Terrio and Vanier Schweitzer. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello, guys. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi, Graham. |
| 0:34.2 | Are you okay? You sound out of breath. |
| 0:36.3 | I sound out of breath? |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah. Well, I'm running around this morning. |
| 0:43.2 | I've just been for a dog walk. Oh, fast paced. And I think, I think maybe I should have a little sit down, drink my cappuccino and put on a dark polo neck sweater because do you know, is that enough |
| 0:55.7 | of a hint? Do you know what I'm going to talk about today? |
| 1:00.2 | Tell us. |
| 1:01.4 | You do because we've written it down in the Google document. Let's not pretend. |
| 1:05.1 | About a completely unnecessary topic. |
| 1:09.2 | Well, is it unnecessary? |
| 1:16.2 | I suppose we will find out in about 14 minutes time, depending on how long this podcast is. |
| 1:19.7 | It's all going to be about Macs and malware. |
| 1:22.2 | Is there a malware problem on the Mac? |
| 1:24.3 | Is there any malware for the Mac? |
| 1:26.7 | Shall we end the show right now? |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, exactly. This is controversial. I'm just saying right now, I'm going to take the side of the, there is not a very big Mac malware problem. Just telling everyone right now, that's going to be my view. But is there a problem? So there still is a problem. Yeah. So Graham, tell us. Graham, you're the expert on this. |
| 1:45.1 | Come on. |
| 1:47.2 | Well, I would agree with you, Kroll. |
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