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thewayneMac users are familiar with Spotlight. Most users might be familiar with web bugs, they're an invisible 1 pixel square graphic in an email that loads from a server that identifies you as a user and your ISP's IP address when you open an email (that's how you get email messages pleading 'Please don't go away!' from companies). In a nutshell, apparently there's a weakness that can be exploited to let someone search all of your Apple Mail emails remotely.
Solution? Two come to mind. First, go in to Preferences/Spotlight and turn off the ability for Spotlight to search your mail. Second, don't use Apple Mail. And it's always a good idea to have a firewall between you and the internet, but that's not an easy proposition to manage.
Google translation from the German site Heise.de:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fsecurity%2F
Solution? Two come to mind. First, go in to Preferences/Spotlight and turn off the ability for Spotlight to search your mail. Second, don't use Apple Mail. And it's always a good idea to have a firewall between you and the internet, but that's not an easy proposition to manage.
Google translation from the German site Heise.de:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fsecurity%2F
