Who likes computers? Okay, return on, we tend to all do. If you don’t need them for school or work, you surely relish surfing the web. Whether or not or not it’s a PC or a Mac, you probably have some modern-day computer for your daily needs. The Apple G4 Ibook may be a prime...
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There was a long standing debate on whether Mac laptops are better than PCs. Owners of Mac laptops say yes. Many owners of different brands hate Mac laptops and vehemently say no. Let’s compare the Apple powerbook to different brands based mostly on a set of features. Processors: Powerbooks are currently capable of using the identical...
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iPhone is an Internet enabled and multimedia mobile phone well designed and marketed by Apple. IPhone has a multi touch screen with buttons and virtual keyboard. The primary function of IPhone includes those of a portable media player and a camera phone with an addition of visual voicemail and text messaging. IPhone also provides...
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I always think about the security of Macintosh apple machines. The Macintosh is much better operating system when it comes to security. Why it has edge over others sytems? Some of the reasons are as follow. 1- It has industry standard security software development. 2- The security concern is a central to the design of operating...
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Mac is a powerful closed operating ststem which is powered by Apple Inc. Mac is a secure system as compare to other operating systems. Mac file systems include HFS (Hierarchical File System), HFS+, HFSX and HFS Wrapper.  Even it is a powerful system but still it has flaws whereyour system can be at risk. In most...
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An Indiana based company has sued Microsoft, Apple, and Google, on holding  the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. Cygnus Systems sued the giants  companies  claiming that they infringed on its patent with products such as...
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what changes should be made to  Mac OS X configuration with respect to security.  “The only significant change which one have to made is that the different password for my Keychain than for my user account.” That’s a change also make on all of  systems. The Keychain allows you to keep internet passwords, notes...
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Macintosh platform is now becoming the target of the same sort of organized crime that affects Windows users, these attacks are still very limited in scope and in impact. Nonetheless, we Mac users cannot afford to be complacent. The success of many data theft attacks depends more on the target system’s user and the way in which...
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For vendors of traditional signature based systems (most IDSs and IPSs), zero day protection is the ability to protect against zero day exploits. They rely on the fact that they know ahead of time of a particular vulnerability. This allows them to provide signatures for the mere attempt to take advantage of the vulnerability....
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An Italian security researcher has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in the most current version of Apple’s QuickTime media software (7.3.1).Luigi Auriemma, noted among other things for discovering a vulnerability in the Unreal Engine in 2004, on Thursday posted details about producing a buffer overflow error in QuickTime. Buffer overflows can...
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On September 21, Apple released two security patches that protect essentially every Mac that uses AirPort against malformed frames passed over 802.11b networks. That’s the vulnerability I wrote about last month, which may or may not have been a real threat to Mac users. “So,” you say. “The problem’s been fixed, Wes. You usually put...
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