50,000 Mac Users Found Malware Using Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

Naked Security warns that users of Mac should be concerned about what might be hiding on their hard drive. "Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition launched on Nov'2nd, proved instantly popular, and also made the list of top products downloaded on Apple site, and is listed as the most popular download in their Networking & Security section."

50,000 Mac Users Found Malware Using Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

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Hidden Debug Mode Found In AMD Processors

An anonymous reader writes "A hidden (and hardware password protected, by means of required special values in processor registers) debug mode has been found in AMD processors, and documented by a reverse engineer called Czernobyl on the RCE Forums community today. It enables powerful hardware debugging features long longed for by reverse engineers, such as hardware data-aware conditional breakpoints, and direct hardware 'page guard'-style breakpoints. And the best part is, it's sitting right there in your processor already, just read the details and off you go with the debugging ninja powers!"