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Marketing and Upgrades

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By David Harley
| Infosecurity Magazine Verified
Jonny Evans has made some interesting points at Computer World regarding Apple's belated removal of DigiNotar root certificates from OS X (specifically Lion and Snow Leopard). Clearly, this restricts mitigation not only to users of the latest versions of the OS, but to Intel-driven hardware: Leopard was the last version of OS X to run on PPCs. Let's take a personal diversion. I have an aging iBook in my office, long past the end of its rope as far as any commercial software is concerned.
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Pickpockets in the (app) Marketplace

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By David Harley
| Infosecurity Magazine Verified
Suddenly, it seems, the App Store is having a (very small) taste of the sort of criticism previously reserved for Android outlets, recently with regard to ZonD80’s provision of a service by which Apple’s in-app purchasing mechanism can be subverted, hard on the heels of reports of a problem that resulted in the distribution of damaged binaries and the not-exactly-malicious Find and Call app using spammy methods of self-promotion via the customer’s contact lists.
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Apple OS X and Risk Reduction

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By David Harley
| Infosecurity Magazine Verified
Some of the confidence Mac users have in the security of their chosen operating system derives from over-reliance on proactive patching. This outbreak highlights the need to be aware that patching of known vulnerabilities in system software or applications is not necessarily prompt enough to forestall attacks based on known or unknown vulnerabilities.
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