{"id":103,"date":"2006-02-26T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-05-08T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T19:59:12","slug":"security-scares-mount-for-apple-macintosh-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/security-scares-mount-for-apple-macintosh-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Security scares mount for Apple Macintosh users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Macintosh security scare. Or so it seems. In the past week, users of Apple&#8217;s Mac computers &#8211; rarely touched by viruses, worms and other nasty stuff &#8211; have been warned of at least three security threats. This week, security experts detected a flaw in the way Apple software handles downloaded files. The flaw could give attackers back-door access to Macs if their owners open malicious files from bogus Web sites and e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Windows-based PCs have felt the brunt of attacks for years because those machines command more than 95% of the worldwide market. Macs mostly have escaped the attention of hackers, until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/computersecurity\/2006-02-23-mac-security_x.htm\">More info<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Macintosh security scare. Or so it seems. In the past week, users of Apple&#8217;s Mac computers &#8211; rarely touched by viruses, worms and other nasty stuff &#8211; have been warned of at least three security threats. This week, security experts detected a flaw in the way Apple software handles downloaded files. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applemcintosh","category-news","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}