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Kaspersky Denies Apple Security Study Request

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Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab denied on Tuesday having received a request from computer maker Apple to study its Mac OS X operating system for protection against cyber threats, Kaspersky said on Tuesday.

Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab denied on Tuesday having received a request from computer maker Apple to study its Mac OS X operating system for protection against cyber threats, Kaspersky said on Tuesday.

British site computing.co.uk, quoting Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov, reported on Monday that Apple had invited experts from Kaspersky to analyse its OS X operating system.

Kaspersky Lab said it had carried out a security analysis of Mac OS X, but this was done at its own initiative and not at the request of Apple. As a result of the analysis, the company concluded the OS X system could be targeted by hacker attacks.

The OS X security issue became especially important in early April, when Dr. Web, a Russian computer security company, reported finding botnets - networks of compromised computers controlled by hackers - including more than 500,000 infected Macs.

The appearance of this latest threat has forced Apple to address the security issue.

 

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