The news of the week is discussed, including this week’s Microsoft Malware Protection Engine bug, Handbrake OS X malware, the HP keylogger, Trump’s Cybersecurity EO, and more.

A new strain of malware is designed to spread malware on either Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, depending on where it’s opened.

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Researchers on Wednesday confirmed that an OS X variant of a recently discovered family of cross-platform backdoors exists. Stefan Ortloff, a researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, identified the family of backdoors called Mokes in January, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that an OS X variant was discovered. Ortloff wrote a technical breakdown of the...

The disclosure a week ago that three Apple iOS zero days were used to spy on a political dissident from the United Arab Emirates included high-profile exposes of the activities of a cyber arms-dealing outfit in Israel known as the NSO Group and an emergency update for iOS. Last night, Apple expanded the scope of...

Apple fixed dozens of vulnerabilities in its software on Monday, including 60 vulnerabilities in its operating system, OS X, and 43 in its mobile operating system, iOS. The OS X update graduates the desktop and server operating system to OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 and applies to anyone running OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, or OS X...

Researchers have linked a variant of the Pirrit adware for Mac OS X to an Israeli online marketing company called TargetingEdge that is still in stealth mode. Amit Serper, lead Linux and Mac OS X researcher at Cybereason, said that script he wrote to remove the original version of Pirrit from compromised machines had recently...

Apple on Monday rolled out a series of patches for nearly all of its operating systems, OS X, iOS, its smart watch operating system, watchOS, and Apple TV’s tvOS, along with fixes for both iTunes and Safari. OS X received the lion’s share of the updates, 67 in total, bringing Apple’s operating system El Capitan to...

Apple has updated its Xcode development environment, patching two vulnerabilities in its implementation of git. Git is a version control system, and in March its handlers patched two flaws that exposed the software to remote code execution. The new version of Xcode, 7.3.1, is available for El Capitain v 10.11 and later. Apple said it...

At the height of the Apple-FBI battle, researchers at Johns Hopkins University tunneled their way through the encryption protocol protecting iMessage to get at content sent via the Apple application Last week, a decidedly less complicated approach surfaced. Rather than having to learn crypto, inject malware or establish a man-in-the-middle position on the network, a...