New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update

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Submission + - New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by XxtraLarGe on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @02:59PM

XxtraLarGe writes: Apple released a security update yesterday (May 31) designed to rid Macs of the menacing MacDefender malware that has plagued users for nearly a month. But mere hours after the update, cybercriminals released a new variant of the malware that easily defeated Apple's belated security efforts.

That didn't take long...

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