::::Kaspersky, Apple Hunting for Mac OS X Bugs? Not Exactly::::

<div class=&quot;custm_img_blk&quot;><img src=&quot;http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337046925_temp.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /></div><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>Kaspersky Lab today denied that the security firm had been commissioned by Apple to help improve the security of Mac OS X.</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>An&nbsp;<span style=&quot;border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial&quot;>article</span>&nbsp;from&nbsp;Computing&nbsp;that quoted Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov as saying that Apple &quot;recently invited us to improve its security&quot; is inaccurate and was taken out of context, Kaspersky said.</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>In a Monday statement, Grebennikov said Kaspersky has indeed studied vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, but that work &quot;was conducted independently of Apple.&quot; Instead, Apple is &quot;collaborating with us regarding new Mac OS X vulnerabilities and malware that we identify during our analysis.&quot;</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>Security firms frequently alert companies to bugs or security threats they uncover.</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>&quot;As Mac OS X market share continues to increase, we expect cyber-criminals to continue to develop new types of malware and attack methods,&quot; Grebennikov continued. &quot;In order to meet these new threats, Kaspersky Lab has been conducting an in-depth analysis of Mac OS X vulnerabilities and new forms of malware.&quot;</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>The author of the&nbsp;Computing&nbsp;piece, Stuart Sumner, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>A major Mac virus to make the rounds recently was the Flashback Trojan, which reportedly<span style=&quot;border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial&quot;>hit upwards of half a million Macs</span>, many of them in the U.S. and Canada. A report from Symantec estimated that the Flashback authors were&nbsp;<span style=&quot;border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial&quot;>reaping an estimated $10,000 a day</span>via Google-related click fraud.</p><p style=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px&quot;>In an&nbsp;<span style=&quot;border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial&quot;>April report</span>, Kaspersky said the recent spate of Mac-related malware does not indicate that Apple's OS is any less secure than it was in the past, but is mainly the result of its growing popularity.</p>

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