Mac users to face increasing threats, predicts PandaLabs

Among the information security trends expected next year, PandaLabs predicts increasing malware threats to Mac users. As Mac market share continues to grow, so will the number of threats, predicted Luis Corrons of PandaLabs.

“Of most concern is the number of security holes affecting the Apple operating system. Let’s hope they get ‘patching’ as soon as possible, as hackers are well aware of the possibilities that such vulnerabilities offer for propagating malware”, Corrons wrote in a Panda Security blog.

But the Apple operating system is not the only one in the sites of malware developers. Corrons predicted that there will be a gradual increase in attacks against Windows 7 in 2011, as cybercriminals improve their malware targeting of that operating system.