Some news that’s not for the faint-hearted Mac OS X lovers. Just don’t forget to update your patches, your antivirus defs and your anti-spyware definitions before you sleep tonight. Best bet is just switch off your PC instead of leaving your Bit Torrent on all the time.
The SANS Institute warned of a steep increase in critical security holes in Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system and in previously undiscovered ("zero day") vulnerabilities in Web browsers.
A booming cyber crime market is driving the growth in zero-day attacks, which are used against Web browsers and enterprise applications by Oracle, Symantec, and others to access sensitive data, SANS said.
Increase in critical security holes in Apple Computer's Mac OS X source
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