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Intego Removes Penultimate Hurdle to Corporate iPhone Adoption (Plus: TAB Contest!)

Written on August 25, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 41 people have commented

Despite Apple’s enterprise nod with the iPhone OS 2.0 feature set there are two fairly glaring omissions that make it difficult to use the iPhone in a corporate setting: the lack of encryption of the file system as a whole (or even just the message store) and the lack of available on-board virus scanners for [...]

Why Mac Security Matters: OS X Rootkit Hunter

Written on January 23, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 28 people have commented

After blogging about the need to use and maintain an anti-virus solution for your OS X systems, an anonymous reply questioning the need to use security tools at all on OS X systems gave me pause. You do not need me to link to the numerous articles flying around the internets that report on how [...]

MacSweeper: Keep This Rogue Mac Application In The Broom Closet

Written on January 16, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

F-Secure is reporting on the first, widespread rogue Mac application that comes in the guise of security software: MacSweeper. It is hosted at www.macsweeper.com, but I do not recommend visiting that site. I’m not convinced this is the first rogue Mac application ever to hit the internets, but the F-Secure folks are top-notch researchers who [...]

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