Hackers aren't just picking on Microsoft: study
Online criminals turned their attention to antivirus software and media players like Apple Computer’s iTunes in the first three months of 2005 as they sought new ways to take control of users’ computers, according to a survey released on Monday.
While hackers continued to poke new holes in Microsoft’s popular Windows operating system, they increasingly exploited flaws in software made by other companies as well, the nonprofit SANS Institute found.
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