MALWARE Reports recent_PC & MAC

Just yesterday morning, the local Colorado Springs, CO CBS Affiliate (KKTV.com) cited recent MALware incident(s), in which MACs and PCs were stated to each be susceptible. The jist of the scenario is that during browsing, you'd end-up entering (a Popular, authentic appearing, web home page) a site that is totally faux, and bad news. Now the internet-user, can no longer go On-Line?? News to anyone, our was "our" news-central get an "F"? Thanx for any news .......