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iPhone security

Intego Warns Against Ikee Worm for iPhone

It’s not Rick Astley you have to worry about, it’s the Ikee worm. According to Macworld UK, Intego, which develops and sells desktop Internet security and privacy software for the Mac, claims to have spotted a hacker tool, which potentially copies personal info from users iPhones. The news comes after the first iPhone worm, known […]

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iPhone 3GS Patents security

Apple Files Patent for iPhone Theft Prevention Technology

A recently published patent application filed this week by Apple suggests the company is looking to use the device’s accelerometer to detect possible theft of the hardware. Per AppleInsider, in a application entitled “Acceleration-Based Theft Detection System for Portable Electronic Devices,” Apple describes a system that would analyze movement via a device’s accelerometer to determine […]

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iPhone iPhone 3GS security Software

Apple Working on iPhone OS 3.0 Mail Bug Fix

Following up on the iPhone OS 3.0 mail bug in which the act of deleting an e-mail within iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t enough to destroy its contents, Apple is reportedly aware of the flaw and could be working on a fix. According to Gizmodo, a source close to the story has stated that the fix […]

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iPhone security Software

iPhone OS 3.0 Mail Bug Revealed

A significant security hole in iPhone OS 3.0 may have surfaced, as a recently published YouTube video demonstrates how the Spotlight search cache doesn’t sync message status with the mail client, so you can still pull up old messages with Spotlight if you know the subject line. According to Engadget, user Matt Janssen, who discovered […]

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Mac security Software

Apple Releases Security Update 2009-004 for Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5

Late Wednesday, Apple released Security Update 2009 – 004 for Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5. The new update, which can be located and installed via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature, repairs a vulnerability in software package BIND that could let a remote party interrupt the Domain Name System service. According […]