APPLE NEWS
Apple Removes Default Java Support In Browsers
Submitted Thursday, October 18, 2012 @ 03:08 PMdarkreading.com — Apple yesterday made another bold move in its efforts to double-down on security -- by removing its Java plug-in from Safari and other Web browsers. See the complete story here.
Internet Explorer Blocks More Malware Than Firefox, Chrome, Safari
Submitted Saturday, September 29, 2012 @ 06:56 AMdarkreading.com — It hasn't been the best month for Internet Explorer given the recent zero-day attack, but the Microsoft browser got some good news today with a new test that shows it's by far better at stopping malware than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and AppleSafari. See the complete story here.
Researchers hack iPhone, steal data
Submitted Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 08:38 AMcsoonline.com — Researchers have broken into an iPhone 4S running the latest version of Apple iOS, making it possible to exploit the same vulnerability in the iPhone 5 that is set for release on Friday. The white-hat hackers Joost Pol and Daan Keuper showed how they were able to steal contacts, browsing history, photos and videos to win $30,000 in the mobile Pwn2Own contest Wednesday at EUSecWest in Amsterdam, IT World reports. See the complete story here.
BlackBerry service down in Europe, Mideast, Africa
Submitted Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 08:30 AMbusinessweek.com — Struggling BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion said Friday it resolved an outage affecting users in Europe, Middle East and Africa that had interrupted service for customers on the very dayApple Inc. unveiled its new iPhone 5. See the complete story here.
iPhone 5: The wait is over
Submitted Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 08:06 AMcnn.com — The most diehard fans of Apple's iconic iPhone were completing what's become an annual rite of passage on Friday as lines that snaked for blocks in some cases began filing into Apple retails stores to be the first to get an iPhone 5. See the complete story here.
Hackers claim proof the FBI is tracking Apple mobile devices
Submitted Tuesday, September 04, 2012 @ 10:12 AMtech.fortune.cnn.com — During the second week of March 2012, a DellVostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose. See the complete story here.
Tim Cook Completes First Year as Apple CEO
Submitted Sunday, August 26, 2012 @ 07:24 AMpcworld.com — On August 24 2011, Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs resigned. One year later and Apple is going from strength to strength, with its share price closing last night at $663.22, compared to $372.12 a year ago, and the news last week that Apple had beat Microsoft to become the most valuable company in history with a market cap of $623.5 billion on 20 August. See the complete story here.
Jury: Samsung should pay Apple more than $1 billion
Submitted Sunday, August 26, 2012 @ 07:16 AMcnn.com — A federal jury in California on Friday recommended thatApple be awarded more than $1 billion in damages after findingSamsung was guilty of "willful" violations of a number of Apple's patents in the creation of its own mobile products. See the complete story here.
About the OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.1 Update
Submitted Thursday, August 23, 2012 @ 11:27 AMsupport.apple.com — The OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.1 Update is recommended for all Mountain Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Takes On Dropbox With SkyDrive For Windows, Mac and iOS
Submitted Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 01:43 PMtechcrunch.com — SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online storage service, is one of the core elements of the company’s cloud strategy. Today, Microsoft is taking the wraps off a number of new SkyDrive apps, including a Dropbox-like desktop integration for Windows and Mac (OS X Lion only). With this, SkyDrive will function like any other folder on your machine and any file you save to it will be automatically uploaded to the cloud and synced to your other computers. For current Dropbox users, this is obviously nothing new and it’s taken Microsoft quite a while to finally offer this feature. With this update, though, Microsoft is also reducing the amount of free storage it is offering new users from 25GB to just 7GB. See the complete story here.
Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:28 AMadobe.com — Adobe released security updates for Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for Linux, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.2) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. These updates address vulnerabilities in the software that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. See the complete story here.
Apple's Siri not as smart as she looks, lawsuit charges
Submitted Saturday, March 17, 2012 @ 04:24 AMnews.cnet.com — Apple's been a little overzealous in the way it's advertised Siri, the voice assistant feature found on the company's latest iPhone, a new lawsuit claims. See the complete story here.
Danish firm outlines two unpatched Safari vulnerabilities
Submitted Saturday, March 17, 2012 @ 04:22 AMnews.cnet.com — The Danish IT security firm Secunia has released an advisory today regarding two unpatched vulnerabilities in Apple's Safari 5 Web browser. These vulnerabilities are so far are not known to be actively exploited; however, if done, they could allow an attacker to run malicious software and conduct spoofing attacks on those using the browser. See the complete story here.
Apple App Store Under Scrutiny As Customers Complain About Credit Card ...
Submitted Saturday, March 17, 2012 @ 04:03 AMhuffingtonpost.com — For new iPad owners, a word from those who have come before you: Fraud at Apple's App Store, the brand's virtual mall for digital merchandise, is out of control, shoppers say. See the complete story here.
IBM’s Watson Computer Gets a Wall Street Job
Submitted Tuesday, March 06, 2012 @ 07:20 AMbloomberg.com — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s Watson computer, which beat champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” a year ago, will soon be advising Wall Street on risks, portfolios and clients. See the complete story here.
iPad maker Foxconn lifts China workers pay again
Submitted Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 03:35 PMin.reuters.com — Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of AppleInc's iPhones and iPads whose factories are under scrutiny over labour practices, has raised wages of its Chinese workers by 16-25 percent from this month, the third rise since 2010. See the complete storyhere.
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