APPLE MAC USERS WARNED OF ADULT VIDEO SITE MALWARE RISK, SOPHOS REPORTS

IT security and control firm Sophos is warning Apple Mac users to wake up to the threat of websites hosting malicious code which can infect their systems, following the discovery of two new separate attacks in 24 hours. The advice follows the discovery of a new version of the Jahlav Trojan horse that is being distributed via a site posing as a portal for adult videos.

Sophos has produced a video, demonstrating how the Mac… Continue

Apple's most affordable Macbook has been updated yesterday. It now sports a faster processor, a faster memory, and a bigger hard drive.

The new specs include (previous specs are in parentheses):

- 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (up from 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)

- 2GB 800MHz DDR2 memory (up from 667MHz DDR2)

- 160GB 5400 rpm hard disk drive (up from 120GB)

The NVIDIA 9400M graphics chip remains the same, which was updated January 21st along with the upgrade to the 1066MHz front-side bus… Continue

Apple Tuesday released a slew of updates for their Leopard and Tiger operating systems as well as for their Safari web browser version 3 and 4 beta.

Mac OS 10.5.7
This update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of Macs.

Here's the partial list of updates and fixes:
- Includes latest security fixes.
- Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras.
- Improves per… Continue

Another round of puzzles and fun has come. Up for grabs are KavaTunes and ShoveBox.

Just go to www.macheist.com, register and have fun.

(If you don't like playing all of the puzzles, there are spoilers in the forums section).

Good luck!

A company called Modality, Inc. has released an iPhone/iPod touch application based on the Saunders flash card set that helps prepare students for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses exam.

Modality, Inc. partnered with Elsevier, a medical publishing company, to bring the Saunders Q & A for NCLEX-RN to the iPhone/iPod touch platform.

The application is… Continue

iDvd version 7.0.3 "improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues."

Update through Software Update or by downloading direct from Apple.

[Source: Macworld]

Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:47PM EST


For years, Mac users have long been rightfully smug about their platform's relative immunity to virus and malware attacks, but it's inevitable that those days will eventually come to an end. (As the Mac gains in popularity, it also earns more attention from malware developers, and it's this lack of malware being actively developed, not some special, inherent security, that have really kept the Mac a "safe" platform for the time being.)

Now we're seeing one of the f… Continue

Last week, Apple quietly updated their most affordable MacBook, the 13-inch white polycarbonate MacBook. It now sports the same processor and graphics chip with that of the $1,299 (Php71,990.00 at the Philippine Apple Online Store) 13-inch aluminium unibody MacBook. The white… Continue

Soon after Apple released iWork '09 during Macworld San Francisco 09, copies of the updated office suite for the Mac started appearing in torrent and warez sites.

Now comes the bad news and not-so-good news.

Bad news: these copies of iWork '09 come with a trojan as… Continue

The latest version of Apple's multimedia suite will start shipping on January 27, 2009.

iLife '09 was announced during Macworld San Francisco '09, with updates focused more on iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband. The other two apps, iDVD an… Continue