When it comes to Web browsing, Flash is a primary source of both insecurity and instability, not to mention unadulterated annoyance even when Adobe’s proprietary multimedia middleware does its job. Here’s a quick, easy and free way to precisely control where and when, if at all, you choose to use Flash.
It looks like the Apple vs Palm iTunes synching contest may have finally been resolved by Palm blinking and taking the synch request out of their phone’s operating system.
By now you’ve likely heard the news that Russian hacker collectives are paying a 43-cent bounty for each comprised Mac. Scary, huh? Well, actual incidences of this behavior observed in the wild are quite rare with the scammers paying more for hacked PCs.
First things first. We need to be clear that these aren’t the droids you’re looking for and that you don’t want to sell me any death sticks. Now, before you go home to reconsider your life, let me show you a neat little piece of software you can use to remotely control your Mac and do it very fashionably at that.
The Miami, Florida-based maker of Hackintosh computers — whitebox PCs running a hacked version of Apple’s operating system — has changed law firms, been fined for destroying evidence and even made a trip through bankruptcy court, but they have yet to run low on chutzpah.
The latest chapter in the saga in which Psystar is pitted against Apple in court has started, this time with Apple accusing the Florida Mac clonemaker of destroying evidence needed in court.
Although it isn’t clear that the Miami, Florida-based Mac cloner has indeed made potentially incriminating information “go away,” a ruling in Apple’s favor could lead to a quick end to the company.
Don’t let the nattering nabobs of negativity and cataclysmic doom convince you otherwise — there’s nothing new in the world of Mac malware. That said, there are places out there on the Internet (i.e. porn sites) that will tell you to install software that really isn’t software.
A security researcher has debuted a new proof-of-concept rootkit, the ultimate in malware, that works on Mac OS X, which may be a harbinger of bad things to come for Apple’s operating system.
When the one-time smartphone leader told the world that its hot, new handset synced seamlessly with Apple’s iTunes — which owns the critical digital music jukebox segment — it was just a question of when and not if Apple would shut them down. Now that Apple’s pulled the plug, what will Palm’s next move be?
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