It began on MacRumors, with someone posting a link to a file that supposedly contained pictures of OSX Leopard (a.k.a 10.5). Some excited Apple fanatics eagerly downloaded the file to their computers and promptly went clicking away. “The Sky is falling!”
Well, the linked file was in fact an archive (latestpic.tgz). So, after [...]

Looks like Microsoft decided it couldn’t afford to wait for Tuesday to release a security fix for the Windows Metafile flaw that many security experts have deemed extremely critical. If you are running a version of Windows (excluding Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows ME), you should head on over to Microsoft’s website [...]

OSX Security Update

Apple has released security update 2005-002. This update is (primarily) in response to potential security flaws in Java that would allow an applet to write/overwrite documents and perform other such nastiness.




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