This morning, as I scrolled down the list of security Web sites I normally check via my RSS reader, I noticed several items referencing news about the “world’s first Mac botnet.” As I read on, it became clear this was neither news nor a first. Ryan Naraine from ZDNet.com writes about a paper released via Virus Bulletin (subscription required) by a pair of Symantec researchers who found what was described as “the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks.” The story goes on to describe how the researchers traced the botnet back to Mac users who had installed pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 2009 software. Back in January, many tech outlets wrote about a Trojan that was being distributed with copies of iWork 2009, that was available on Bittorrent and other file-sharing services. In my own coverage of that Trojan, I interviewed Pete Yandell, a software developer from Australia