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Report: Nearly 6 Million Infected Web Pages Across 640K Compromised Sites

More Websites are compromised today than ever, and about one-fifth of the pages on each newly compromised Website were infected as of this year's third quarter, according to new data gathered from real-time Web malware monitoring service provider Dasient.
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Apple at Work Patching 'Leopard' OS

Updated: Apple directs users a security patch concerning an outdated version of Java, which is applicable to Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.8 or later.
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Security experts: No Java fix in OS X leaves Macs vulnerable

Fuller suggests Mac OS X users disable Java applets in their browsers and disable the Open Safe Files after Downloading in Safari option. He also offers a proof of concept to demonstrate the issue with a link that will execute code on your system with your current user permissions.
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Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack

In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher has posted attack code that exploits the flaw.
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