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Treffer: Crooks exploit public bug to plant adware on Yosemite Macs.

Title:
Crooks exploit public bug to plant adware on Yosemite Macs.
Authors:
Keizer, Gregg
Source:
CIO (13284045); 8/6/2015, p1-1, 1p
Subject Terms:
MACBOOK, MACINTOSH (Computer), COMPUTER operating systems, COMPUTER viruses, ADWARE (Computer software), EQUIPMENT & supplies, COMPUTER software
People:
REED, Thomas
Database:
Complementary Index

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The article reports that security researcher Thomas Reed has announced that hackers are planting viruses on Mac computers by exploting a vulnerability in the OS X Y Yosemite operating system which was published in July 2015. Reed reportedly commented that the virus installs adware and junkware, however it is not malicious. It notes that the bug only affects Yosemite.