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Apple computer users with the false sense of security against virus and malware attacks have a reality check coming – very soon!

The Apple platform is vulnerable to exploits and viruses, but has basically been left alone, not because of ingenious security, but because their operating system (OS), platform’s small numbers compared to the PC users platform has not enticed the malicious virus coders up till now, but that is dramatically changing according to experts. Thank the iPhone’s popularity – a victim of their own success.

Now, most recently its the Russian cyber assault on Kyrgyzstan, or as of 1993 – The Kyrgyz Republic, that passed virtually unnoticed in western media preceded by just weeks the Kyrgyzstan parliament’s decision this week to boot the United States from a vital air base at Manas. This has far reaching affect could create strategic chaos in the region for the United States.

For all the fears of sophisticated digital intrusions preoccupying many computer security professionals, President Obama’s leading candidates for “cyber czar” also are focusing on an all-too-human …

Former White House cybersecurity official Paul B. Kurtz, in his first public remarks since becoming an advisor to President Obama’s transition team following the election, describes his biggest worry: A “cyber Katrina” in which fragmented bureaucracies and companies fail to share critical information and coordinate responses to cyber intruders attempting to disrupt power grids, financial markets, or any number of now-plausible scenarios involving a Web shutdown.

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