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Title: Denial of Service Attack Targets Mac and iOS Users
Post by: HCK on January 07, 2017, 04:05:13 pm
Denial of Service Attack Targets Mac and iOS Users

This week, 9to5Mac reported on a tech support scam that caused a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a Mac. While this DoS was described as an attack caused by malware, it appears to be a malicious script loaded by a web browser instead, in this case Safari. This DoS attack is not malware in the traditional sense, because […]

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