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Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSA

Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSAApple Rocks!whooohooo I'm #1!Password Assistant to the rescueArticle states: "Those best practices include all those password usage tips that IT users forget almost daily."Apple's Password Assistant to the rescue. It's available from System Preferences, when you're changing or creating...

Tags: Apple Inc., password, NSA, LaunchServices

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

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Mac users waiting months for 'critical' Java runtime update

Mac users waiting months for 'critical' Java runtime updateNot a problem at allWe keep hearing constantly from all sorts of people yourself included that Macs are such a miniscule portion of the computing ecosphere that no one bothers to write malware for them, so who cares if the patch hasn't...

Tags: Programming languages, Java, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

Maintenance (dmg)

Maintenance is a system maintenance and cleaning utility (repair permissions, run periodic scripts, clean applications, fonts, and system cache, rebuild LaunchServices database, and mail-mailboxes.)

Tags: Maintenance, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-28

Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS flaw

Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS flawNothing to be afraid of[i]A security researcher has published attack code for an unpatched flaw in Mac OS X[/i]This is merely proof of concept code written by a researcher. There is no way a real "hacker" would ever take this PoC code and do...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, SECURITY, proof of concept, Apple Macintosh, flaw, Apple Safari, operating system, Mac Attack, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Apple patches 20 security holes

Apple patches 20 security holesSo here's the quizHow many of those are OS flaws?Relevance??George, What's the relevance??? will you also start posting about all the other OS's when they've got an update??????Next week is Patch tuesday, I would expect an anouncement as well!!!!OK OKYou've convinced me - I'm selling my...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, TalkBack

Discussion threads 2006-03-02

Apple patches 20 security holes

Apple computer on Wednesday 3/2/2006 patched 20 security holes ranging from denial-of-service to very serious code execution flaws. Apple's security update 2006-001 fixes the following issues in OS X 10.3.9 to 10.4.5:Multiple PHP 4.4 issues in apache_mod_php. OS X File server DoS or arbitrary code execution with automount. Directory...

Tags: OS 10.4.5, flaw, code execution, operating system

Blog posts 2006-03-02