BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.

Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they visited a website for software developers that had been infected with malicious software. The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers, the company said in a statement provided to Reuters.

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
computers were attacked by the same hackers who targeted
Facebook Inc (FB.O: Quote, Profile, Research), but no data appeared to have been stolen,
the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented admission of a
widespread cyber-security breach.

Facebook revealed on Friday that unidentified hackers traced
to China had staged a sophisticated attack by infiltrating its
employees’ laptops, but no user information was compromised.
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Feb 14 (Reuters) – Poor password security allowed hackers to
broadcast a bogus warning on TV networks that the United States
was under attack by zombies, broadcasters said, and one expert
in the technology said the emergency channel they broke into
remained vulnerable.

The attacks on Monday on a handful of stations prompted the
government to order broadcasters to change passwords for the
equipment that authorities use to instantly push out emergency
broadcasts through what is known as the Emergency Alert System,
or EAS.

By Jim Finkle

(Reuters) – A hacker infiltration of the U.S. emergency broadcast system on TV stations in at least four states came down to the fact that the stations had failed to change factory default passwords, broadcasters said on Wednesday.

The Monday attacks, which broadcast bogus warnings that the United States was under attack by zombies, prompted the government to order television stations to change passwords on the equipment that connects them to the nation’s Emergency Alert System, or EAS.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc is investigating a report by a cybersecurity firm that hackers exploited previously unknown bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software to launch sophisticated attacks on personal computers.

FireEye, a Silicon Valley company that helps businesses fight cyber attacks, told Reuters it obtained so-called PDF files tainted with malicious software, which can take advantage of the newly discovered bugs.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Security software maker Bit9 on Friday said that computer hackers have breached its network, then launched a second round of attacks against some of its customers.

The hackers accessed a system that Bit9 said it uses to digitally sign its software to let customers know it is safe to run on their computers. The hackers then forged Bit9′s digital signature on malicious software, which they used to attack some of its customers, according to the privately held company.

By Alister Bull and Jim Finkle and Rick Rothacker

(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve said on Thursday it was still working to determine the extent that its computer systems had been breached by hackers, adding that the incident was the subject of a criminal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“We are in the process of a comprehensive assessment to determine what information might have been obtained in this incident,” said Federal Reserve spokesman Jim Strader. “We remain confident that this incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve,” he said.

BOSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Software makers Microsoft Corp
(MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Symantec Corp (SYMC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said they disrupted a global
cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled
hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their
users.

The move made it temporarily impossible for infected PCs
around the world to search the web, though the companies offered
free tools to clean machines through messages that were
automatically pushed out to infected computers.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.

The move made it temporarily impossible for infected PCs around the world to search the web, though the companies offered free tools to clean machines through messages that were automatically pushed out to infected computers.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Software makers Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Symantec Corp (SYMC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.

The move made it temporarily impossible for infected PCs around the world to search the web, though the companies offered free tools to clean machines through messages that were automatically pushed out to infected computers.