After five months, it might be time to fix this sucker… Per mitre.org and Ars Technica, a unaddressed bug in Apple’s Mac OS X discovered five months ago allows hackers to bypass the usual authentication measures by tweaking specific clock and user timestamp settings, granting near unlimited access to a computer’s files. While the security […]
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Hacking an iOS device may be getting tougher to do. Per iPodNN, in a recent tweet, hacker i0n1c has revealed that the forthcoming iOS 6.1 update adds “again tougher protections” to the codebase even compared to iOS 6, suggesting that security has been dramatically improved. While many users have perfectly legitimate reasons (beyond just wanting […]
Late Sunday, Mozilla.org released version 6.0.1 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as an 28.1 megabyte download offered the following change: – Revoked the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance (see bug 682927 and the security advisory). Firefox 6.0.1 requires an Intel-based Mac and Mac OS X 10.5 […]
Albeit there have been some utilities that have allowed your iPhone and iPod touch to double as a flash drive, this one may have it down pat. And for free. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, myPod Apps’ iPhone Explorer can be installed on your Mac or PC and allows you to view the folder structure, […]