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Apple today warned that its GarageBand software is leaking users’ Web activity to third parties and advertisers.The company shipped GarageBand 5.1 to plug the hole and advise users to tweak their Safari browser preferences to avoid data leakage.  Here’s the relevant information from Apple’s advisory:CVE-2009-2198: When GarageBand is opened, Safari’s preferences are changed to always [...]

Apple's security has always been a tumultuous area of conversation among Mac and iPhone aficionados. On the one hand, you are always hearing things like "the Mac is easier to break into than Windows 7" or the "iPhone isn't safe enough for Enterprise!" But when has there ever been an outbreak among Apple machines?

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LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers.The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication  that [...]

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

The way most people remove malicious software from an infected Windows machine can be improved upon.

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The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]