If you keep losing an incredibly valuable intellectual property, it might be time to give your security a once-over. Per PCmag.com, Apple posted two job openings on Thursday for managers of “New Product Security.” While it might be a coincidence that the positions opened up when they did, the job descriptions certainly sound like a […]
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If you’re a good enough hacker and sort of threaten Apple’s warranties to a certain degree, the company might just give you an internship. According to his Twitter feed, 19-year old Nicholas Allegra, announced that he will start an internship with Apple “the week after next.” Allegra gained notoriety last year when, as a member […]
The bad news: There’ll always be people designing viruses, trojans and malware for computers. The good news: It’s quite a bit rarer on the Mac OS X side of things. Even so, the latest attempt from digital wrongdoers to infect your Mac has been spotted taking on the look and feel of Adobe’s Flash Installer. […]
On Friday, Apple released iOS 4.3.5, the latest incarnation of its iOS operating system for its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. The updates fix a security vulnerability with certificate validation and arrive in two versions, thanks to the different flavors of the iPhone 4. iOS 4.3.5 applies to the iPad and iPad 2, the […]
In the category of “weird but interesting and mildly disturbing”, a prominent security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the batteries of Apple’s MacBook line of portable computers that could allow hackers to ruin the batteries or install malware on them that could corrupt a Mac. Per Forbes, Charlie Miller, a renowned white-hat hacker who […]