Because $68.7 billion forms a pretty enormous gaming empire. Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for US$95 per share, bringing the total valuation to US$68.7 billion, on Tuesday. The deal includes iconic franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios such as “Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Overwatch,” “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush.” The […]
It’s a fairly large update, but it helps. On Thursday, Apple released Security Update 2018-04 for its El Capitan and Sierra operating systems. The update, a 786 megabyte download via the App Store’s “Update” tab, addresses the following issues: AMD Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine […]
It’s not the largest update in the world, but it has some important fixes within it. On Tuesday, Apple released its iOS 11.3.1 update. The update, a 44.5 megabyte download for the iPhone and a 33.5 megabyte download for the iPad, offers the following fixes and changes: – iOS 11.3.1 improves the security of your […]
In the wake of developers downloading a malware-filled copy of your development tools and inadvertently uploading tons of malware-filled apps to the App Store, it helps to put some money into infrastructure and make sure the slow download speeds for the genuine version of the development tools are sufficient, thus removing the need to download […]
Well, this is kind of a mess. Research associate Palo Alto Networks has posted an analysis on a novel malware XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode IDE to infect Apple iOS apps. The report mentions that at least two popular iOS apps were infected. We now believe many more popular iOS apps have been infected, including WeChat, […]