Content Tagged ‘Apple’

Magic mirror on the wall, what’s the best smartphone of all?

May 16, 2012 - Until last week, iPhone's Siri would respond to "What is the best smartphone?" with - gulp - iPhone's competitor Nokia Lumia 900. This "bug" has now been fixed by Apple, but Nokia are making sure everyone is aware that Apple (continue reading...) Read more

Apple Security Update Fixing QuickTime Vulnerabilities

May 15, 2012 - Guest post from Rodrigo Branco, Director of Vulnerability and Malware Research at Qualys Apple just released an advisory addressing 17 security flaws in QuickTime Media Player. The update is (continue reading...) Read more

Apple issues security updates for Mac OS X Leopard – to fight malware menace

May 14, 2012 - Are you still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? If so, you have some very important critical security patches to install - helping to protect your Mac from malware threats. Read more

Adobe’s fix for Photoshop CS5 security issue? Buy Photoshop CS6

May 11, 2012 - Way to alienate a loyal customerbase, Adobe. Adobe is making users pay of its Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash Professional products pay hundreds of dollars to fix security flaws. Read more

Important Apple security updates for Snow Leopard and Lion – get ‘em today!

May 9, 2012 - Hot on the heels of the iOS 5.1.1 release, Apple has pumped out a raft of security updates for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7) users. Many vulnerabilities have been fixed, and Safari gets a really cool (continue reading...) Read more

Apple May 2012 Security Releases

May 9, 2012 - Apple just published three new software releases for Safari, OS X and iOS: Safari 5.1.7 is described by Apple as an update that enhances performance in low memory conditions. In terms of (continue reading...) Read more

What the RTF? Mac and Windows users at risk from boobytrapped documents

May 9, 2012 - Think that Patch Tuesday is irrelevant to if you don't run Windows? Think again. Mac users advised to update their installations of Microsoft Office. Read more

A Bit of May Madness from Microsoft for May 2012 Patch Tuesday

May 8, 2012 - The disruptive restarts and the wide range of platforms impacted by May’s bulletins will have IT teams scrambling to accomplish their flaw remediation tasks this month. Combine those with the workload from Oracle and others and many security pros may (continue reading...) Read more

Apple offers iOS 5.1.1 update, fixes some serious vulnerabilities

May 7, 2012 - Apple's latest update to iOS just came out. Version 5.1.1 is more than just a cosmetic fix: it patches at least three security flaws, all of which should be considered serious. Read more

Apple update to OS X Lion exposes encryption passwords

May 5, 2012 - Apple has exposed the encryption passwords of FileVault users in the most recent update to OS X Lion. Users are advised to use full disk encryption and change passwords that may have been recorded insecurely. (continue reading...) Read more

May 2012 Patch Tuesday Preview

May 3, 2012 - Today, Microsoft released its Advanced Notification for May which contains seven bulletins fixing a total of 23 vulnerabilities. Three of the bulletins are critical, and four are rated important. The bulletins (continue reading...) Read more

Oracle discloses new zero day exploit and launches JDK for Mac OS X

April 30, 2012 - Oracle announces the release of Java JDK for OS X Lion and a zero day in its database products that has a proof-of-concept available in the wild. Read more

OSX.Flashback.K – The motivation behind the malware – $$$

April 30, 2012 - We've been busy in the labs reverse engineering the various components of OSX.Flashback.K to determine the true motivation behind the malware. Let's take a look at this Mac Trojan in more detail. The Infection It's now well-known that the latest (continue reading...) Read more

SSCC 89 – InfoSec Europe trends, tat and tales

April 29, 2012 - Chester Wisniewski and Chris Pace walk around the exhibition hall at this year's InfoSec Europe and share their insights on trends and some fantastic giveaways some vendors thought might grab your attention. (continue reading...) Read more

Python-based malware attack targets Macs. Windows PCs also under fire

April 27, 2012 - A new malware attack is targeting Mac computers with a Python-based backdoor Trojan. And Windows computers aren't getting away scott free either. Read more

OS X Lamadai: Flashback isn’t the only Mac malware threat

April 25, 2012 - The Flashback trojan has been all over the news lately, but it is not the only Mac malware threat out there at the moment. A few weeks ago, we published a technical analysis of OSX/Lamadai.A, the Mac OS X (continue reading...) Read more

1 in 5 Macs has malware on it. Does yours?

April 24, 2012 - One in every five Mac computers is harbouring some kind of malware, a new study from the experts at Sophos has revealed. Sophos has revealed a disturbingly high level of malware on Mac computers - with both Windows and Mac threats (continue reading...) Read more

iPhone app ‘Lock My Screen’? Well, no, it doesn’t actually

April 23, 2012 - iPhone users are being tricked into buying a phony screen-lock app, which is actually nothing more than a wallpaper. Read more

SSCC 88 – iTunes security, Mac malware and Google’s FCC fine

April 22, 2012 - Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin chat about the security issues surrounding Apple's new iTunes security, knowledge-based authentication, Mac malware and Google's fine from the FCC. Read more

FLAMING RETORT: All this new Mac malware – whose fault is it?

April 16, 2012 - Flaming Retort is back, this time trying to Coole and Explayne the flames we've had from some Mac users in the past few days. In a back-to-front way of making Mac fans feel better, I'll start by making everyone feel slightly (continue reading...) Read more

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