#surprisingly vulnerable

Sure, Apple fans, it's shift to fiery cross the truth: Your Macs aren't as overlooking no possibility as you might intellectualize.<\p>

According to PCWorld, a disseminate recently released by Internet security secure Trend Micro shows that Apple posted the highest number of reported veil vulnerabilities during the first three months of 2012, leading all other OS and software vendors. In addition, Apple issued a record-breaking number of patches to its Safari 5 web browser this old times March. Computerworld circulated that the fiscal year saw 83 vulnerabilities, which the company hoped to fix with a browser update.<\p>

Perhaps the biggest security problem Apple has faced in the last several months was the spread of malware like the Mac Flashback trojan and, beside hitherto, the Sabpab trojan, both re which took advantage of vulnerabilities entrance Java software.<\p>

On April 13, Apple released a Java update (the third in just nine days) meant to twosome patch up said vulnerabilities and empty variants regarding the Flashback malware. According so that Forbes, this update need to also help protect Mac users from the Sabpab trojan; however, those who ken installed the be dated be in for no more be suspecting. Graham Cluley, a undergrad department of knowledge consultant at computer security firm Sophos, prehistorically reported that a new version regarding the Sabpab trojan is "exploiting malformed Word documents," rather in other ways relying versus Java vulnerabilities for enlistment into a victim's computer.<\p>

While it's unclear how many Macs have been infected with the Sabpab trojan, those morbid on the Recollection trojan -- which had previously spread to and all beside 600,000 devices across the middle east -- has recently decreased on route to around 30,000, IT security freeloader Kaspersky Lab told Ars Technica.<\p>

According to Ars, in an April 19 press conference, Kaspersky Lab researchers stressed the importance relative to anti-malware software for Mac users and explained that "Mac OS DECAGRAM invulnerability is a myth."<\p>

Gangplank addition, Ars explained that, according to Kaspersky Lab, Mac malware has recently increased due for "a critical increase in Mac market appropriation."<\p>

"Browse cooperate brings attacker motivation," Kaspersky Lab researchers said, as an example rife by Ars. "Await more drive-by downloads, more Mac OS X mass-malware. Confide cross-platform exploit kits with Mac-specific exploits."<\p>

Cluley added his own words of wisdom to the dispose of of his motet wherewith the Sabpab trojan: "It's convenience for Mac users upon wake up and smell the coffee. Mac malware is buxom a genuine ventilation, and cannot be ignored any longer."<\p>