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Apple goes against grain, extends support for Snow Leopard
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-09-20 21:17
Apple yesterday quietly released a security update for OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, effectively extending support for the three-year-old OS beyond the normal lifecycle.
The Snow Leopard update shipped alongside larger updates for Lion and Mountain Lion, OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8.
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Apple Seeds New Mountain Lion Developer Build With Facebook Baked In, Power Nap and more
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-09-12 08:15
Apple has seeded a new version of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 to registered developers in the Mac Dev Center. This marks the fourth beta update of 10.8.2 to be released in less than a month, indicating that a public release is imminent.
Unlike the last couple minor version of the 10.8.2 beta, today’s 12C50 update packs several new additions and improvements. Namely, Facebook integration has been fully baked into OS X itself, meaning that everyone should have access to Facebook in Mountain Lion when 10.8.2 drops.
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New 'super dangerous' Java zero-day flaw affects OS X
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-08-27 23:14
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Java 7, security experts said today.
The unpatched bug can be exploited through any browser running on any operating system, from Windows and Linux to OS X, that has Java installed, said Tod Beardsley, the engineering manager for Metasploit, the open-source penetration testing framework used by both legitimate researchers and criminal hackers.
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Mac users left wondering if OS X Snow Leopard's retired
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-31 00:20
Apple's refusal to put into writing its operating system support policy leaves Snow Leopard users wondering whether their copy of OS X has been retired, security experts said today.
The question "Is Snow Leopard retired?" went legitimate as soon as Apple launched OS X Mountain Lion last week.
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New command line tools in Mountain Lion manage encryption, sleep and sharing
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-07-30 13:25
For fans of the Terminal, Mountain Lion brought some new command-line utilities. Perhaps the most notable is fdesetup, which Apple explains briefly: "fdesetup allows third-party management tools to enable FileVault, determine encryption status, capture and manage recovery keys, and add users to a FileVault-encrypted system as well as synchronize directory-based user authentication credentials with the local credentials for FileVault access."
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