As great as Thunderbolt is, there are vulnerabilities to consider. Per 9to5Mac, a security researcher speaking at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg demonstrated a hack that rewrites an Intel Mac’s firmware using a Thunderbolt device with attack code in an option ROM. Known as Thunderstrike, the proof of concept presented by Trammel Hudson infects […]
Tag: OS X
It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening here, but sometimes Apple makes changes with no warning. Per AppleInsider, the beta iCloud.com Photos application is no longer available to access via the website, as a vague “early 2015” launch date for a new Photos for OS X app also looms. The iCloud Photos app had been […]
It’s not a huge patch, but it could make a difference. Per Mac|Life, Apple released a small Network Time Protocol security patch on Friday. The patch, a 1.4 megabyte download, addresses what the company terms as a new “critical security issue”. Fascinatingly enough, the vulnerability itself was discovered by the Google Security Team back on […]
If you’re still having Wi-Fi issues with Yosemite, there may be some hope on the way. Per MacRumors, Apple on Thursday seeded the second beta of OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite to developers, two weeks after seeing the first 10.10.2 beta and two and a half weeks after releasing OS X 10.10.1 to the public. The […]
It wasn’t the biggest update in the universe, but it might prove helpful. According to MacRumors and German blog Macerkopf, Apple on Friday updated iWork for iCloud with support for up to eight new languages and more than 50 new fonts. The changes were added to the cloud-based versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote.