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  • Apple closes another Wi-Fi hole

    Apple late on Thursday released a security update to plug a publicly known security hole in its AirPort product.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Apple Windows Safari: Second patch batch unleashed

    The recently-launched Apple browser, Safari for Windows, has received its second lot of patches since its debut earlier this month.

  • Bluetooth worm targets Mac OS X

    Just a day after experts warned of what is believed to be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple Computer's Mac OS X, alerts are being published on a new worm that exploits an 8-month-old vulnerability in the operating system.

  • Mac OS X flaw raises serious concerns

    An unpublished security vulnerability in Apple's OS X operating system which first came to light after a hacking competition has sparked concern in the user community.

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    Are PC users diluting the IQ of the Mac community?

    According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Greedy Apple users will trust anyone

    A "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    CA's Apple Mac lives with 100,000+ viruses

    Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.

  • Confessions of a naked Mac user

    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

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  • Bugs interrupt Office-Palm link

    Technical glitches have prompted Microsoft to stop offering for download a free program it introduced last week that allows Palm handhelds to synchronise with the Macintosh version of Office.

  • Apple updates Mac OS to squash bugs

    Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.

  • Is Mac OS X weaker than Windows?

    Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.

  • Apple Aperture

    This imaging work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture could make life easier for photographers who need to sort through large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.

  • Symantec 'scare tactics' don't rattle Mac users

    Security vendor Symantec has once again pointed the knife at Apple Macintosh users.

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