You’ve just got to love stories like this. Instagram has only 13 employees but their super-popular app got enough attention and traction that Facebook felt it would be better to buy them for one billion than to build their own. Congratulations!
Make sure you update your Mac asap. For the longest time, Mac users thought that they were immune to viruses. The truth is that until recently, there just weren’t enough Macs in the market to make economic sense for virus authors to go after. This trojan horse now marks the beginning of Macs joining mainstream PC users as virus targets. The party is over! Please get your Mac updated.
Apple released a Java 1.6.0_31 update for OS X on Tuesday that claims to deliver “improved compatibility, security, and reliability.” The patch closes multiple vulnerabilities found in Java 1.6.0_29, the most serious of which allows malicious code to be executed just by visiting a compromised website. The update is available from Software Update on any Mac running Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7.3, or Lion Server v10.7.3.
Russian security firm Doctor Web claims that attackers began to exploit the Java vulnerability on March 16th which Apple closed with the release of the Java update on April 3rd. Dr. Web now estimates that about 600,000 Macs, most of which reside in the US (55 percent) and Canada (19.8 percent), are now infected members of the Flashback botnet. The company also notes that some four million compromised web-pages could be found in Google search results at the end of March with some users claiming infection by visiting sites as mainstream as dlink.com.
Security company F-Secure has instructions for detecting and deleting the Flashback botnet on infected computers.
- Via Ars Technica
- Source Doctor WebF-Secure
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For those of us raised in the era of books and paper, this is really a watershed moment. What does it say when an icon of knowledge is overrun by a free, open, essentially volunteer system called Wikipedia?
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
By JULIE BOSMAN
This one is good.
The most telling part of this piece is that Sony’s consumer products sales were down 24% year over year. Have you even seen a Sony TV these days? This is an amazing testament to the power and speed of a free, innovative market that supports open competition and one of the many reasons why I love the tech industry so much
Sony has just posted its results for the third quarter of its 2011 fiscal year and as expected, the news is not great. Sony posted an operating loss of $1.2 billion and net loss of $2 billion on revenue of $23.37 billion.
Straight from Microsoft’s website comes a stern warning about a security hole that apparently can happen by simply going to a bad website. Make sure your Windows system is promptly updated, like now!
The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted web request to the target site. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands
Take a look and let me know what you think!
If you absolutely must get an iPad 2, be my guest. But don’t be disappointed when the iPad 3 comes out around the spring next year in 2012. Can you hang on? I will!
The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2, according to sources in the supply chain.
Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1)
