‘Apple’ Archives
Q&A Monday: How often to replace a buisness Mac
Question: Hey Jim, I am a small business owner and I am constantly struggling with how often do I replace the Apple computers in my office. I do have some PC's in the office which I lease on a 3 year cycle, but I'm not sure if I should replace the Apple's as often as I do the PC's. Is there a standard rule for replacing Apple computers in [...]
Software Update: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Update
Apple has released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad to address vulnerabilities in the FreeType and IOSurface packages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or gain system privileges. This is most likely to address the jailbreakme.com website that was [...]
Browser Update: Apple Releases Safari 5.0.1 and 4.1.1
Apple has released the following update for their Safari browser, it effects: Safari 4 (Mac OS X 10.4), Safari 5 (Windows), Safari 5 (Mac OS X 10.6), Safari 5 (Mac OS X 10.5). According to Apple’s Support site for this update (HERE) the following vulnerabilities were fixed. Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1 SafariCVE-ID: [...]
Apple Announces iPhone 4 Free Case Program
Apple has announced today the release of the iPhone 4 Case Program Application that is available from the apple store online. Once you downloaded the application you sign in with your iTunes username and password and the application gives you a couple of different options to choose from. Despite my fear that it would take a while, I was able to [...]
Software Update: Firefox 3.6.7 and Firefox 3.5.11
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.7 and Firefox 3.5.11 for Windows, Mac and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, or conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Some of these vulnerabilities also affect [...]
Software Update: iTunes 9.2.1 Released
Apple has release a new version of iTunes making the current version 9.2.1 . This update is to fix a vulnerability due to improper handling of the itpc URLs. itpc is the protocol used by iTunes for handling podcasts. An attacker may convincing a user to access a specially crafted itpc URL and they may be able to execute code or cause a [...]
Patch: iPhone IOS 4.0.1 Released
Apple has just issued the 4.0.1 iOS update, which now includes a new formula for displaying reception bars. This updates doesn’t really fix the route problem that the phone has, just displays the bars a little differently. This new formula is supposedly the way AT&T recommends and doesn’t actually improve reception. Apple reported [...]
Why you should encrypt your iPhone backup!
I was reading an article about how the iPhone backup that your iTunes makes when you sync your phone can be cracked (for better or worse). It wasn’t even really a setting that I paid attention to, until this article came up. When I went to check, there it was, unchecked: “Encrypt iPhone backup”. Figuring if it was something that I [...]
Q&A Monday: FaceTime Chat Ports
Question: I am a Mobile Administrator of my company, and recently some of the users have preordered the iPhone 4 and they started to receive these phone’s last week. There is a new feature called FaceTime, which lets users do a face to face chat on their phone, like Skype. The users are able to make FaceTime calls inside of the network, [...]
Top 5: Most overlooked configuration items
No matter how prepared and how well documented the network is, sometimes techs forget some basic configurations sometimes. It’s never intentional, but sometimes there are small configurations that we just need to double check. Below is a list of some things that I’ve seen (and have) forgotten to double check when doing a [...]
