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The OSX/RSPlug.a Trojan is on a very short list of malware that’s been specifically designed to target Mac OS X, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. The motive of this particular Trojan could be for the purposes of phishing, identity theft, or simply to drive traffic to alternative Web sites, he said.

Newsfactor reported yesterday that mac users are no longer safe from bugs, viruses, worms and other security woes because a Trojan targeting Macs is currently on the lose. Apparently, hackers, scammers and phishers are taking Macs seriously for them to attack the system.

The worm, dubbed “OSX.RSPlug.a,” is a Trojan virus that changes the Mac’s Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect unsuspecting users to different sites. With this in your system, phishing for your username and password among various sites will be easier because you will be getting any malicious site that the culprit decides to point on you. The reason for this may vary, from the purposes of phishing, identity theft to simply drive traffic to alternate sites, the bottom-line is that hackers and scammers may already be finding its way into Mac’s systems. Everyone should be wary and alert on what they click on the net for this may be the reason to your computer’s long life or lack thereof.

With more than 100 million iPods sold, Apple is managing billions of songs – many of them managed by the iTunes software and sold through the iTunes Store.

Now, Apple is out with iTunes Plus – the latest version and the first to feature higher-quality songs without digital rights management restrictions. iTunes Plus features songs encoded at 256 kilobits per second – twice the rate of the previous iTunes songs. The higher-rate songs cost a little more - $1.29 apiece… that’s 30 cents more than the regular iTunes songs. But for more, you also get less – as in, no digital rights management, meaning, that unlike any other iTunes
songs, you can move these to and play them on devices other than an iPod.

Some websites have noted that customers names and some iTunes account information is encoded within song file – presumably to deter posting the songs for free online. So, if you’re really privacy-minded, you might want to stick with regular iTunes songs.

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