Less than eight hours (time stamped 9:24 pm last night) after Apple released Security Update 2011-03 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to deal with MACDefender and related malware, the developers behind the apps created a new variation that is able to slip paste Apple’s updated security. To avoid having your Mac infected, use caution when downloading suspicious software.

Apple’s fix for the MACDefender and related malware is finally live in the form of a software update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, dubbed Security Update 2011-03. According to the company, the update, weighing in at 2.36 MB, checks for the malware on your system and notifies the user, quits it, deletes any related files, and corrects any modification it makes should it find it.

The SecureMac team has detected another Horse Horder in the wild for the Mac. Like previous findings from this team, this Trojan Horse attempts to disguise itself on your system and then affect it negatively in some way. In the case of the BlackHole RAT 2.0, it slows down your system by tying up the CPU, executes shell commands, and attempts to erase the hard drive. In short, it’s something you don’t want.

Remember the Boonana trojan horse that was in the wild for Mac OS X last month? A variant—the trojan.osx.boonana.b—has now been discovered that acts in much the same way as the original malware. SecureMac has been able to identify two+ websites that are hosting this trojan via update code for the malware. This is a little different from the original trojan which tricked users into running and installing the malware themselves.

“Is this you in this video?” is an all too common question we can find on social networks nowadays. However, new data from SecureMac says that when you see this and a link to a video, it’s highly likely that it’s a virus. This trojan is commonly spread through this kind of message on social networking sites, and is capable of affecting many versions of Mac OS X, including Snow Leopard.

In a press memo, Mac security specialist Intego announced the discovery of a spyware application connected by a few freely available Mac OS X applications. This application is apparently capable of activities from “scanning files to recording user activity, as well as sending information about this activity to remote servers and opening a backdoor on infected Macs.” Labeled as high risk, this malware has been existent in a different form on Windows since 2008 and is usually installed via misleading text about a “market research” program.

At a recent meeting with my colleagues, some of the guys were showing off USB drives that were barely larger than an iPhone SIM card. These things were tiny. My colleagues were impressed, I was not. Can something that size be safe from breaking? From being lost? From being eaten by my cat. Not likely, so give me the Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB Drive for Mac OS X any day.

Did you salute Major Snow Leopard Bug? If you did, you watch just the right amount of How I Met Your Mother. But even if that didn’t get your attention, I hope you’ll continue reading because there are few things worse than losing your data. According to numerous discussions on Apple’s support boards, there’s a major bug in Snow Leopard that can delete all of your data with very little effort on your part.

It happened last year, and it happened again this year. The tech sector of the internet is seeing a fair share of headlines to the tune of “Safari hacked in 10 Seconds!” At the Pwn2Own conference this year, Charlie Miller, who hacked Safari last year to much the same media explosion, used Safari to gain control of a MacBook in under ten seconds. Sounds like we should be worried, right?

Do you have nightmares about people logging into your account on your Mac and accessing your personal data? Well, Upek has a product for the paranoid types, and it could prove useful for others in the coming days, as well. It’s called the Eikon To Go, and it keeps your user account secure without requiring you to memorize a War and Peace length password. This because the Eikon To Go is a fingerprint scanner.