Cyber Security One

People used to say that Apple computers, unlike Windows PCs, can't ever be infected — but it's a myth.

- Timur Tsoriev, Kaspursky Labs analyst

(NEWSER) – Are you a smug Mac user who assumes you can't possibly get a virus? Well, think again. A Russian anti-virus firm believes that about 600,000 Macs around the world have been infected with the Flashback Trojan virus—and about half of those are expected to be in the US. The virus may allow cybercriminals to take over infected computers en masse and use them as a "botnet," the BBC reports.