Apple's Days Of (Apparent) Invulnerability Appear Numbered

Whenever a critical vulnerability or fast-spreading malware which affect one of the Microsoft operating systems is discovered, many turn to talk about how other operating systems or applications don't have these issues. Apple fanatics in particular have always been very proud of their operating system's seeming invulnerability to common attacks. However, the move to using Unix as the underlying core of the Mac OS X operating system, combined with the increasing popularity of the Mac operating system, have moved Mac OS X onto the malware author's radar and Apple is starting to find themselves in the bullseye as well. For more about the new security issues facing Apple, read this ZDNet article: Is Apple's security honeymoon over?.