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Tag Archives: apple
The App Store giveth and the App Store taketh away
The other day, the JoshMeister blogged about the Mac App Store and the effect of its approval delays in getting critical security updates to users. Third-party Web browser maker Opera has released version 11.11 of its software, which fixes a … Continue reading
Tagged apple, appstore, mac, security
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Apple pushes false update, then backtracks
Bloggers such as Ed Zott reported this week that Apple once again used its Apple Software Update tool to offer "updates" to software that was not installed on the user’s computer: Under the Updates heading, Apple says I need the … Continue reading
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Openness versus consumer protection? Android, iPhone, and transparency
If you follow news about the Android mobile phone platform, you may have seen recent allegations of malware against a third party application available on Google’s Android application market. It’s unclear whether or not the application in question, MemoryUp, was … Continue reading
Tagged android, apple, generativity, google, iphone, transparency, zittrain
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Mac attack
Sandi over at the Spyware Sucks blog “pointed”:http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/08/15/1644705.aspx to “this thread”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7768848 on Apple’s Mac forums, indicating that some Mac users have been victims of a web-based malware attack: bq. This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers … Continue reading
Tagged apple, linux, mac, stopbadware
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Apple keeps mum
The other day, Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post wrote “a column”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/07/ST2008080700649.html?sid=ST2008080700649&pos=top about Apple’s tendency to keep its mouth shut rather than communicating with customers: bq. The Cupertino, Calif., corporation provides some of the best tech support in the business … Continue reading
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iPhone users should beware of mail links
Aviv Raff, a security researcher, released “an advisory”:http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/07/23/iPhoneIsPhishableAndSPAMable.aspx indicating that the iPhone is vulnerable to a URL spoofing attack. bq. By creating a specially crafted URL, and sending it via an email, an attacker can convince the user that the … Continue reading
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Naraine: Apple Software Update still badware
ZDNet blogger Ryan Naraine “called us to task”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1335 today for not calling Apple Software Update badware. Last month, we “stopped short”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/17/apple-responds-to-community-concerns of labeling the application badware after Apple made changes to improve the disclosure of applications that were installed under … Continue reading
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Trojan Horses Nip at Apple Vulnerabilities
Software company Intego found this “Mac Trojan”:http://www.intego.com/news/ism0803.asp masquerading as a poker game. The Trojan actually transmits the user’s name, password, and IP address to an external server which it acquires through clever social engineering: bq. “A corrupt preference file has … Continue reading
Apple Fixes Safari Vulnerability on Windows
About a month ago, we “questioned Apple”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/19/safari-security-questioned-sbw-encourages-action for characterizing a Safari security vulnerability as a “feature” issue, not a security issue. This issue got “further attention”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/06/12/safari-vulnerability-now-a-blended-flavor when Microsoft announced that the Safari vulnerability combined with a Windows vulnerability could lead … Continue reading
Tagged apple, microsoft, safari, stopbadware, windows
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Badware led to child porn charge
An “article”:http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1101074 in today’s Boston Herald highlights a case in which an unsuspecting user had his life turned upside down because of malware: bq. A child porn possession charge lodged against a Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having … Continue reading
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