When in doubt, try something new. Per Macworld, a new variant of the password-stealing Flashback malware aimed at Macs has emerged, the new software attempting to install itself after a user visits an infected website, according to new research. Flashback, discovered by security vendor Intego last September, is engineered to steal passwords for websites, including […]
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You can’t argue that WebKit’s been good for Apple and iOS in general. Apple’s WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a “triple tier virtual machine,” offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Per webkit.org, recent changes in Apple’s WebKit open source project (used by Safari on OS X and iOS, and to power […]
On Thursday, security firm Intego announced that it has discovered more strains of the Flashback Trojan horse. The company says that “many Mac users have been infected by this malware,” especially the latest variant, Flashback.G. Per Macworld, Intego describes three unique methods that the Trojan horse uses to infect Macs: It attempts to exploit a […]
Late Wednesday, the Camino Project released version 2.1.1 of
Late Friday, Mozilla.org released version 10.0.2 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as a 31.4 megabyte download and adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixed: Java applets sometimes caused text input to become unresponsive (bug 718939). – NEW: Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default. – […]