Late last night, Apple released a patch that fixed at least 17 different security holes in it's Leopard operating system. One of the most anticipated fixes is the DNS vulnerability fix that similarly affected vendors fixed in their products nearly 3 weeks ago.
Security Update 2008-005 patches a serious flaw that allowed hackers to redirect surfers to counterfeit web sites.
Updates are available for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4.
Be safe and patch today
After a rocky weekend rollout, it seems that unfortunately, Apple's newly rolled out web-based internet services application, called MobileMe is still experiencing problems.
When MobileMe first was introduced, I was really excited and intrigued by what Apple was trying to accomplish. The concept behind MobileMe is a great one, syncing calender, contact and email data over the internet to ALL your devices (your desktop, iphone, laptop, etc.).
In any case, while I think I will be purchasing the service in the future, I'm glad that I haven't jumped right in as they say because it seems that approximately 1% of MobileMe users are having email problems.
We'll see what the next few weeks hold for MobileMe users, but I wish Apple all the best because I want this new service of theirs to succeed. Good Luck Apple!
Confirmed by a screenshot taken from an early "Snow Leopard" build, it appears that the next iteration of OS X will be dropping PPC support. The system requirements clearly state that an Intel-Mac is required for the OS.
Not only will Snow Leopard bring faster performance javascript and system wide, it also said to minimize the amount of hard drive space needed for installation. One way of course to do this is by shedding universal binaries and only targeting development for intel-based machines...
Snow Leopard is scheduled for release sometime in mid-2009, so the PPC has a bit of life left in it.
Along with the iPhone, Apple also previewed an early build of the next release of OS X, code named "Snow Leopard." Basically along with some additional features, Snow Leopard will boast a smaller footprint and faster javascript performance...Due in mid-2009, Snow Leopard will also be able to access multiple cores, up to 16TB of Ram and of course, Exchange 2007 compatible...
More information can be found on Apple's Snow Leopard Preview Site: http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
Yesterday Apple released 10.5.3 update via its automatic update servers. The over 100 MB download also fixes some UI issues in spaces however all users are being recommended to download the patch.
Also, a side note, the latest iPhone SDK beta relies upon having the latest update to Mac OS X Leopard.