A website that makes it child’s play for iPad and iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices raises important security concerns. The site, jailbreakme.com, exploits a PDF vulnerability to run unauthorised code on Apple customers’ iPhones and iPads, including the new iPad 2. In this way they allow users to unlock their devices, and run programs […]
ZDNet writer Ed Bott has posted the latest instructions to Apple tech support personnel regarding users calling in with active fake anti-virus “MacDefender” infections. Bott says he acquired the documents by talking with two anonymous Apple support representatives about how Apple is coping with the first widespread attack against OS X users. According to his […]
ZDNet writer Ed Bott has today published a fascinating conversation with an AppleCare support rep on the subject of Mac malware. For reasons which will become obvious when you read the interview, the Apple support rep has chosen to remain anonymous. Chances are that if he hadn’t kept his identity secret that he would be […]
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