Recently I received a Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) Emerging Threat Advisory notice regarding a Trojan specifically targeting the Mac called “Flashback”. This Trojan appeared to be an Adobe Flash update when in reality malicious software was installed on the client machine. Once installed, personal information from the users’ web browser sessions can be sent to remote servers. I found this somewhat amusing, because I have heard die hard Mac users (I won’t mention any names) boldly confess that the Mac is virtually immune to these types of vulnerabilities often seen in the wild. This is obviously not the case, and it got me wondering just how many Macs are out there compared to PC based platforms? Market share varies on who you ask, but is generally around 85-90% for Microsoft platforms, and about 5-10% for all MacOS... read more >