What To Do When The Internet Is Down
via the inimitable Gina Smith at ANewDomain
via the inimitable Gina Smith at ANewDomain
Evidently, seventeen thousand Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OS X machines (worldwide) have been corralled into a nefarious botnet. Discovered by a relative unknown in the burgeoning Russian anti-virus industry (nope, it wasn't Kapersky) this bot is probably the prettiest ever, eh Comrade? One bit of good news, Apple has released a new malware definitions update as of 11:00 AM yesterday.
Much ado about something, nearly a quarter century in the offing, and further evidence to support our Theory of Cruft, or the Things that are Left Over, and Getting in the Way...
Outstanding screed, penned by Nicholas White, writing at The Kernel, details the apparent Gentrification of Cybercrime. Who'd A Thought... An electronic Thomas Crown, eh wot?
{with apologies to the Blandings...}
Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, here's why Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iOS 8.x driven devices are marginally better for privacy concerns: Rotating (Programmatic MAC Spoofing) Media Access Control addresses. Today's MustRead; whilst, another view of tracking iOS devices has surfaced.
Newly discovered BASH vulnerability finds Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OS X operating system with it's shell environment cracked; of course, this pernicious bug also finds its way into most Linux and/or other Unix-like and UNIX systems. Interestingly, there are workarounds and patches available for the version of BASH resident on your OS X systems. If you look hard enough, there is a workaround in the StackExchange article (linked to above).
Cogitate thrice upon updating newly released software with newly released patches to fix newly discovered bugs, as evidence of cruft...
Since early youth, I have been enamored of all things elephantine...
via Scoopertino, comes news of Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) new wearable...
via MacDrifter's Gabe, revealing les couilles of the developers of SwiftKey. Evidently, a very popular iOS 8's key logger, for sale on the AppStore, mon Dieu.