Still, Mac OS X remains open to threats, Sophos asserts. The threat, if running on your Mac, opens your Mac to remote hijinks from a malicious hacker, including taking screen shots, sending e-mail and access to your all important files. On the upside, Apple has officially protected Macs against a potential threat that masks itself as iPhoto. Sophos decrees that since there’s no mention of the update in Apple’s release notes, Apple is trying to quietly suggest that there are no threats to the OS X operating system and that Apple isn’t offering true virus protection. Specifically, Sophos notes that Apple very quietly updated their ist in Mac OS X 10.6.4 - which stores information about Mac malware. Sophos, the endpoint security software company, is taking aim at Apple on the security front.
