Full FeedHow to beat the iPhone’s child restrictions
Well here’s a fun little article from the grandaddy of Mac journalism. Responding to a reader query about how to control what a child has access to on an iPhone/iPod Touch, Macworld editor Christopher Breen details how to turn on the kid-friendly “Restrictions” setting, and then promptly points out how… Continue Reading »
International Space Station Windows computers infected with virus.
The International Space Station has been infiltrated. That’s right, a virus has made it’s way onto the computers of the International Space Station. The computers, running Windows XP, were non-mission-critical, containing things like e-mail and “nutritional experiments.” The computers were infected by the W32.Gammima.AG worm, which harvests credentials for online… Continue Reading »
Protect your Mac with a phalange (finger)
If you love unlocking your iPhone or iPod Touch with your finger, you can now have that same functionality on your Mac for only $50.00. A new device from UPEK called the Eikon Digital Privacy Manager provides security for your Mac with the swipe of a finger. It can be… Continue Reading »
PayPal welcomes Safari back into the fold
PayPal was considering blocking Safari users from accessing their website due to security risks that the browser has a few days ago. Because Safari doesn’t have any built-in support for anti-phishing, it was considered very unsafe by PayPal. I can bring Safari and PayPal users good news: Safari has been… Continue Reading »
No more PayPal for Safari?
Citing an increase in attempted Phishing attempts on PayPal’s user database, PayPal says there is a very good chance that older versions of Internet Explorer (IE 4 and later), along with the all versions of Safari, may be blocked from the site. Safari and older versions of IE lack phishing… Continue Reading »
Safari 3.1.1 is now available via Software Update
Just after my recent Safari rant, Apple publishes an update. This version, 3.1.1, fixes 39MB worth of security issues and bugs, one of which was the one that allowed a hacker to get full access of a MacBook Air at a recent PWN2OWN conference. This update deals with four specific… Continue Reading »
1,000,000 viruses? Ahh, the joys of owning a Mac!
According to the latest release of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, the number of malicious programs (worms, trojans, etc) has reached the one million mark. More specifically, it is now at 1,122,311. It’s at times like these when I really enjoy having a Mac. I’m sure the vast majority of… Continue Reading »
Security Update 2008-002 Released
Apple today released Security Update 2008-002 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.2. The update addresses more than 40 known bugs. AppKit, X11, CUPS, and Foundation are the most addressed in the update. Password problems that might show your passwords to other local users were addresses in the areas of… Continue Reading »
MacBook Air Baffles TSA Airport Officials
The latest item to throw Airport Security for a loop? Apple’s latest, thinnest, sleekest, sexiest notebook: the MacBook Air. At a security checkpoint, blogger Michael Nygard was held up because they had detected something suspicious in his bag. Security staff gathered around, as they wondered how it could possibly have… Continue Reading »
PayPal excludes Safari from “Safer Browsers”
Millions of people are victims to e-mail fraud and fake websites known as “phishing”. PayPal users are vulnerable to phishing all the time. For those who don’t know what PayPal phishing is, it’s basically a replica of PayPal’s login screen, and when you enter your details, instead of logging you… Continue Reading »
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