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Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. Jason has contributed to MacWEEK, Macworld, MacAddict, MacPower Japan, and written chapters for The Macintosh Bible, Eighth Edition and The Macintosh Bible, Panther Edition Peachpit Press. He also co-founded the...- more about Jason D. O'Grady »
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- Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates
- Yesterday, Mac cloner announced a series of Software Updates for their Open Computer: Safe updates, as well as bug fixes and workarounds, are now available in our Support section. We have released a couple of fixes for things like Time Machine as well as a fix for DHCP issues...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Update, DHCP, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Security, Keyboards, Digital Media, Networking, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Leopard, Operating Systems, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Psystar, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music
- Does Apple have a Kick Me sign on their back or something? First Netflix fires a major shot over the bow of the Apple TV with their new Netflix Player set-top box, now Napster is going after iTunes with a new DRM-free music service. "We're...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Napster Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital-rights Management, Digital Media, MP3, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated)
- Online payment giant PayPal said yesterday that they're going to block Web browsers they deem unsafe from accessing their Web site. At issue are browsers that don't have strong anti-phishing protection. We are in the process of reimplementing controls which will first warn our customers when logging in to...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Phishing, Apple Safari, PayPal, Web Browser, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Phishing Protection, Spam And Phishing
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Apple releases Safari 3.1.1 security update
- Under cover of darkness, Apple released Safari 3.1.1 via Software Update tonight. In typical Apple form the description is purposefully vague, recommending the update "for all Safari users" and telling us that it "includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security." A-ha. Apple's About the security content of...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Security Administration, Apple Mac OS, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- MacBook Air first to fall in hacking competition
- The MacBook Air was the first laptop to fall in the CanSecWest hacking contest. Hacker Charlie Miller took home the MacBook Air and a $10,000 cash prize Thursday after breaking into the machine at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. Conference organizers offered a...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Hacking, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practices
- Yesterday Apple pushed out a Safari 3.1 update via Software Update on Windows. In a blog post, Mozilla CEO John Lilly describes why Mozilla feels Apple's decision is wrong -- and how moves like it can endanger the security of the Web. From John Lilly's blog: What Apple...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Malware, Blogging, Web Browsers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Security Update 2008-002 released
- Apple yesterday released Security Update 2008-002 (50.5MB) for Mac OS 10.4.11 and 10.5.2. The update, which appears in Software Update, is recommended "for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X." The previous 2008-001 Security Update is incorporated into this update and a restart is...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Security Update 2007-009 fixes 42 Leopard vulnerabilities
- Security Update 2007-009 (35.4MB) addresses 42 vulnerabilities in first update to Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard and is waiting in your Software Update. According to Apple: Security Update 2007-009 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components: Core Foundation CUPS ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Vulnerability, Security
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- How Universal Music lost touch with their customers
- There's a good read in this month's issue (15.12) of Wired Magazine about chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris. Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away pretty much paints Morris as a technology luddite who's lost grip of what...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Universal Music Group, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics, Doug Morris, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Exploit discovered for QuickTime vulnerability
- A story on ZDNet news ("Apple QuickTime exploit in the wild") explains that Symantec researcher Joji Hamada has discovered active exploit code in the wild for an unpatched Apple QuickTime vulnerability. The "active exploit" takes advantage of a vulnerability in QuickTime v.7.x that could lead to users...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple QuickTime, Vulnerability, Symantec Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- BREAKING: Third party applications confirmed for iPhone (updated)
- That sound you hear is hell freezing over. Despite saying everything to the contrary and even opening a WebApps portal on their Web site, Steve Jobs today announced that Apple is releasing an iPhone SDK to developers in February so that they can develop "real" iPhone...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Cyberthreats, Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- iJailBreak for iPod Touch
- After iPhone firmware 1.1.1 succumbed to hackers last week, you knew that it wouldn't be long before the the iPod touch suffered the same fate. iJailBreak 0.2.1 was written by 13-year-old hacker AriX and is based on Niacin and Dre's tiff exploit and iPHoneUtilityClient iPhuc. iJailBreak is the first automated...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hacking, Consumer Electronics, iJailBreak 0.2.1, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- iPhone root vulnerability or bogus MSM hysteria?
- A lot of hay has been made about a purported "vulnerability" in iPhone that allows a malicious Web site to extract personal information and take control of the device from the a WiFi connection. I put "vulnerability" in quotes because it hasn't been publicly demonstrated yet.The NY Times reports that...
- Tags: Security, iPhone, Hack
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- First worm for Mac OS X?
- Rape.osx is an alleged worm that targets Mac OS X. According to Slashdot:"Controversy is slowly building over the development of a claimed new worm that targets OS X systems, dubbed by its inventor Rape.osx. Using a currently undisclosed vulnerability in mDNSResponder, the worm is said to give access to root...
- Tags: Security, Mac OS, Hack
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Inside the new MBP: Intel's Santa Rosa processor
- Arguably the most significant upgrade in the the new MacBook Pros announced yesterday is the inclusion of the new Mobile 965 chipset (a.k.a. "Santa Rosa") from Intel. The new chip whose marketing name is Centrino Pro has a number of features over the previous silicon: Improved graphics Better wireless with support for...
- Tags: Hardware, Intel, MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Apple releases iTunes 7.2 with iTunes Plus
- Apple yesterday released iTunes 7.2 (build 34) which includes the foundation for "iTunes Plus," the apparent name for what Apple is calling the new DRM-free (US$1.29) music tracks they announced in April with EMI.No word on what else is included in the 29.2MB download but who wants to bet that...
- Tags: DRM, iTunes, iTunes Store, Music, QuickTime, Security, Software, Software Update
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Security Update 2007-005 released
- Apple today released their fifth security update for Mac OS X this year.The 30.2MB universal binary download patches 13 areas of OS X including alias manager, denial of service vulnerabilities in BIND, integer overflow vulnerabilities in PDF, fetchmail password disclosure and other nastiness.Security Update 2007-005 is recommended for all users...
- Tags: Security, Software, Software Update
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Linkin Park Dot-Mac email account hacked
- If you ever doubted the benefit of a strong password, check out Wired's article Linkin Park's Mysterious Cyberstalker.In it Linkin' front man tells an eerie tale about how his wife, family and personal life were privacy was compromised and how they were taunted daily. A stalker fan had gained access...
- Tags: Dot-Mac, Hack, Security, Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- More on the MacBook Pro browser exploit
- If you havent been following the hack of the Safari Web browser on a MacBook Pro there are some details that you should know.First, as I reported on Wednesday the attack is not native to the Macintosh. The flaw actually lies in the way Apples QuickTime Media Player works with...
- Tags: Hack, MacBook Pro, Security
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- 'Mac hack' also affects Windows
- On Monday I reported on a Safari vulnerability that was exposed at a security conference - as it turns out, the vulnerability also affects PCs running Windows as well. Hackers Dino Dai Zovi and Shane Macaulay were able to hijack a MacBook Pro as part of the "PWN to OWN"...
- Tags: Security, Hack
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
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