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Apple releases Security Update 2011-005 for OS X

A small security update for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion users is now available from Apple, addressing an issue regarding fraudulent certificates from DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority organization. The security issue arose when DigiNotar’s servers became compromised by hackers a few weeks ago, who managed to obtain access to 531 of the company’s certificates without their knowledge until weeks after the intrusion took place. Although Apple has taken a while to respond to this issue, they’ve finally revoked DigiNotar’s status as a trusted source with Security Update 2011-005.

Hackers unlock 1.1.2 iPhone — a little too late

Looks like hackers have finally figured out how to unlock your iPhone running 1.1.2 to run on other wireless carriers. Unfortunately, the hackers are just a little too late. Apple has just released 1.1.3 for the iPhone, and hackers have just broken in to 1.1.2. This really is a cat and mouse game. Geoge Hotz, more »

The Army starts using Macs, more secure

Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping the enemy won’t expect this army strategy: switching some of it’s computer base to Macs. The enemy, of course, is hackers. Wallington, who is a division chief for the Army’s office of enterprise information systems, says that the army is quietly slipping Macs into it’s systems to make the more »

Roundup of iPhone hacks

Hackers have been wanting to get their hands on the iPhone. Now that the iPhone has been released and has made its way into their hands, hackers are taking the iPhone apart and seeing what they can change easily and see what they can change with more than a little elbow grease. There are currently more »