Time For Mac Users To Think About Viruses - Tech Europe - WSJ

Time for Mac users to join the Great Unwashed? The attacks mightn't seem especially sophisticated to a wizened Windows user, but for Mac people this could be a foreboding sign of the inevitable. This is the downside of Apple's gaining a larger market share in the personal computer market.

"We Mac users are a pretty insufferably smug lot. How we look down our noses at mere PCs, how it offends our sensibilities to have to run Parallels and have Windows running on our beloved Macs. How we sneer at all the silly virus protection software because our Macs don’t get viruses.

Well my fellow Mac lovers, sneer no more, and perhaps the time is right to at least think about virus protection.

ZDnet reports on two in-the-wild attacks launched against Macs. Admittedly two isn’t a huge number, but these are in-the-wild attacks. The attacks, such as they are, are the fake AV scan (your computer is infected, buy this software to clean it up)."

Full article at WSJ.

Related article at ZDnet: "What a Mac malware attack looks like"

Educause Library Technology Forecast

2010 Horizon Report

The annual Horizon Report has been published by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). It profiles six new and emerging technologies which will impact education over the coming years. Here’s a brief recap of their findings:

Time to adoption:

One Year or Less
Mobile Computing
Open Content

Two to Three Years
Electronic Books
Simple Augmented Reality

Four to Five Years
Gesture-based Computing
Visual Data Analysis

Check out the full Educause/New Media Consortium Report: 2010 Horizon Report