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Apple removes claim of virus immunity

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 26th, 2012)

As small as the threat may be, Mac users can no longer claim immunity from attack by malicious software online. Many Mac users are starting to recognize this new reality and now Apple does, too. As noted in a recent PC World article, Apple has quietly removed the claim "It doesn't get PC viruses" ...

Worms 2 Armageddon gets asychronous play

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2012)

Worms 2 Armageddon for iOS has just picked up an update with the most requested feature in Worms history: Asychronous play. That long word, in case you haven't heard it before, simply means that players can now play against each other on different schedules. We're talking about Worms with ...

iPad games leak out, include Plants vs. Zombies HD and Worms HD

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2010)

Whoops -- somebody at Apple accidentally jumped the gun on sending a few iPad titles to the App Store. A few HD titles have snuck into iTunes' web interface a little early, and while we already knew that some of them were on the way to the iPad (Flight Control HD has already been announced, and NBA ...

Worm rickrolls unsecured jailbroken iPhones via SSH

by Josh Carr (Nov 7th, 2009)

For the last few days, some jailbroken iPhone users have found their home screen background a little different than they remembered. A hacker, going by the name "ikee," created a worm that changes the home screen background on jailbroken iPhones whose owners failed to change the default password ...

Worms for the iPhone submitted to Apple

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2009)

Everyone's favorite battling invertebrates are coming to the iPhone and iPod touch very soon -- the game was actually announced a little while ago, but Team 17 now says the game has been sent off to be examined by Apple's eyes, and so, as long as it doesn't have any objectionable content (you ...

How would you react to a wide-spread Mac OS X virus?

by David Chartier (Dec 11th, 2006)

One of the long-standing major appeals of the Mac OS has been its relatively small and low-impact ratio of serious security vulnerabilities and virus attacks. Users wear it like a badge on their shoulder, and even Apple has jumped in by flat-out bragging about Mac OS X's security with their latest ...

TUAW Podcast #13

by David Chartier (Oct 24th, 2006)

This week's podcast involves Dan Pourhadi and the C4 developer shindig he attended, those exclusive Leopard screenshots we nabbed, iPod viruses and the corporate blame game, and we round off with Apple's preliminary 4th quarter earnings results. Dan and I kept things short this time around, as the ...

Symantec: No file infecting viruses for OS X

by Scott McNulty (Jul 14th, 2006)

Every time I write about Mac security the comments fill up with people telling me that I am an idiot (actually, come to think of it, that happens with most of my posts). Therefore, I thought some of you would enjoy this post from Symantec that which states categorically that there are no known file ...