As spiffy as Mac OS X’s 10.5 Time Machine feature can be, a number of users have noticed that their external hard drives continue to spin even when they have stopped using the drive, which has brought about the question as to whether the drive was being accessed by another, unauthorized application or because of […]
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The Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, which appears to be close to release, went through yet another pre-release build late last week with developers working out additional tweaks for the operating system. According to AppleInsider, build 9J56 focuses on “Bluetooth compatibility and stability fixes” per sources familiar with the software. A number of recent Mac […]
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Data Rescue II 1.2.2 Update Released
Data Rescue II, Prosoft Engineering’s data rescue and recovery program, was updated to version 1.2.2 late Wednesday. The new version, a 14.2 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: Update to Apple’s latest boot disc technology. Several bug fixes. Additional improvements in speed and performance. Data Rescue II requires Mac OS X 10.2 or […]
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.0.9 Update
Early Wednesday, Mozilla.org released version 3.0.9 of its Firefox web browser. The new browser, a 17.3 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and changes: Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies. (bug 470578) Fixed an issue where, […]
Mac hacker Charlie Miller, a principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators and the winner of the the CanSecWest security conference hacking contest two years straight, has detailed his latest find wherein he was able to run shellcode on an iPhone. According to Macworld UK, it was widely believed by many security researchers that it […]