Wednesday, 31. October 2007, 12:20:04
leopard, osx, x, os x
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OS X Leopard... Latest news !!
Cupertino (CA) – Apple today said that the latest version of its Mac OS X 10.5 operating system exceeded the launch sales of its predecessor “Tiger”. More than two million copies were delivered to customers over the weekend.
Read the article here after : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Leopard-OS-sales,news-26710.html
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Wednesday, 22. November 2006, 21:06:31
exploit, macintosh, vulnerability, os x
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Apple Mac OS X UDIF Memory Corruption Vulnerability

- Highly critical - From remote
Issued 1 day ago. Updated 12 hours ago.
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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Tuesday, 21. November 2006, 19:55:30
apple, security, updates, advisories
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About the security content of Apple Remote Desktop 3.1
This document describes the security content of Apple Remote Desktop 3.1, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.

For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.
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Tuesday, 7. November 2006, 20:07:55
mac, os x, apple, virus
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Proof-of-concept virus does not pose a threat.

Experts at
SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have advised Mac OS X users not to panic following the discovery of a new proof-of-concept virus.
The worm, dubbed OSX/Macarena, has caused headlines in the press because new Macintosh malware is so rarely encountered compared to malicious code designed for Windows PCs. At the time of writing Sophos has received no reports of any customers who have encountered the malware, and only source code versions have been uncovered.
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Friday, 3. November 2006, 20:41:49
vb100%, news, symantec, mac
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New OSX parasitic virus found

Symantec report proof-of-concept file infector for Mac.
Analysts at Symantec have received samples of a proof-of-concept file infector for the Apple Mac OSX platform. The virus, dubbed 'OSX/Macarena' after the mid-nineties chart hit and dance craze, is capable of infecting any files executed once it is running - as long as they are in the same directory as the original viral file. The parasite has no payload other than replication.
This new finding is unlikely to put an end to the long-running debate over Mac security, recently stirred up by the the iPod virus issue and the resulting war of words between Apple and Microsoft,' said John Hawes, Technical Consultant at Virus Bulletin. 'With its fairly limited capabilities, Symantec have classed the finding as very low risk, but Mac users should hopefully be reminded that they aren't invulnernable to malware, and should take the usual precautions.
Symantec's analysis of the virus is here, and a blog entry from Peter Ferrie on the findings is here.
Go to Symantec website.
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Wednesday, 18. October 2006, 19:38:39
news, apple
Apple warns that viruses are present in some iPod
Hot News found on the Nouvelobs
Certain numeric(digital) readers iPod of Apple Computer delivered last month would be infected by a computer virus, according to a message published in the part(party) technical aid of the Internet site of the manufacturer.
Apple indicates that since September 12th, a little less than a percent of its iPod video went out of factory with a virus called RavMonE.exe, who affects the operating system Windows of Microsoft.
" Until now we received less than 25 demands concerning of this problem. IPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac bones X are not concerned and all the iPod video delivered at present is without virus ", clarifies Apple on its Web site.
Apple adds that the virus can be discovered and eliminated with most of the common(current) antivirus software.
Nobody at Apple or Microsoft was available on Wednesday morning to comment on the information.
Go to the Nouvelobs.com website (French can be translated in English, look at the bottom of the page!)