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		msbarnett on Oct 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networ... The user is also alerted when the applet tries to run, and they would need to approve the privilege escalation request for the applet; it has an untrusted, self-signed cert.

DavidSJ on Oct 27, 2010 [–]

If true, this is a huge omission from the article. Got a source?

msbarnett on Oct 27, 2010 | [–]

Sure, here's a couple with less breathlessness, and more details:

http://www.intego.com/news/trojan-horse-os-x-koobface-a-affe...

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/27/security-alert-new-trojan-hor...

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