Chinese hackers take a bite out of Apple employees' Macs

Apple employees picked up a virus when they visited a website aimed at software developers. “The same software, which infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp's Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, was used to launch attacks against Facebook,” which the social network disclosed on 2/15/13. The malicious software also might have struck hundreds of other companies, including defense contractors, and might be responsible for the Twitter breach disclosed on 2/1/13. “Security firm F-Secure wrote that the attackers might have been trying to get access to the code for apps on smartphones, seeking a way to infect millions of end-users. It urged developers to check their source code for unintended changes.”