Tag: Security
Apple Releases Update For OS X Leopard. Yes, Really.
Straight out of the “things we didn’t expect to hear today” file, Apple has released an update for OS X 10.5, also known as Leopard....
Kapersky Backtracks Over Claims Of Apple Asking For Help
The question of Mac malware and its proliferation is a contentious discussion on the internetz, but it doesn’t help much when there’s a lack of...
Eugene Kaspersky: ‘Apple ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security’
Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind Kaspersky Lab, which is also the company responsible for one of the more successful malware, antivirus, and security bundles on...
Flashback Trojan Reportedly Infects 600,000 Macs
Your snotty PC using friends who have been talking for the last 15 years about how Mac viruses will be on the rise any day...
Apple’s iOS Now Secret Agent Approved In Australia
If passing around secret documents regarding the worlds super-villians is in your job description, please pay attention. Australia has approved Apple’s iOS as a legitimate...
Firefox releases Collusion, online tracking paranoia enabler
Data visualization and privacy paranoia come together in a new add-on released by Mozilla, named Collusion. Neat little graphs of what sites use what cookies await you...
Panic: No sexting pictures are safe in iOS due to privacy bug
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse when it came to developers stealing your private information, it does. The New York Times has...
iOS 5 passcode security flaw is back
Apple’s already addressed one iOS 5 passcode security flaw where users were able to circumvent the passcode by using Siri. Then they fixed a security flaw...
Touchscreen PIN Security: Nobody said there’d be math
Uh-oh! Touchscreens are great. Tapping, swiping, and sliding your fingers around on the screen is fun and easy, but it also leaves a residue on...
iPhone bug can give thieves access to your iMessages
A newly-discovered bug in iPhones using iOS 5 may make it impossible to extricate your iMessage identity from the device, thus leaving the door open...
Covert Browser brings Tor browsing support to iPad
A new browser on the App Store has brought the Tor network to the iPad. Tor, a free and open network, is primarily been used...
Quick Tip: Locking your desktop with your screen saver
Okay, what gives? I just spent the last five minutes trying to remember how to get my screen saver to lock my desktop in Lion...
Make sure Siri is passcode protected for some extra security
In our child-like excitement to try out Siri on iPhone 4S release day, most of us missed the fact that you can launch Siri, compose...
Security Fail – Any Lion user can change your password with one command
Passwords, as weak as they may be, are the common man’s only real protection when talking about access to our protected files. A new Lion...
Apple learning from past mistakes and hiring new product security managers
It didn’t even seem real when the story broke that someone had purchased an iPhone prototype that was found in a bar after an Apple...
Lion subject to major LDAP vulnerability
LDAP, a protocol for authenticating users over a network connection, has become a topic of discussion amongst IT departments who deploy Macs in their enterprise....
Report: Android malware skyrocketing, iPhone malware rare
It seems like every way we look these days there’s another security concern to worry about. While most of us have come to accept malware...
iOS PDF Exploit patched by Apple in iOS 4.3.4 release
Remember that PDF exploit that had the iOS world in a tizzy last week? Yeah, Apple’s patched that in a new iOS release today. iOS...