Apple on Monday seeded the eighth beta of Mac OS X 10.6.7 to developers, with the latest build again featuring no new issues and no new focus areas, suggesting a final release could be close.
People familiar with the latest build, dubbed 10J869, said it is a 476.1MB download in its delta image form. It arrives less than a week after the previous build, which was named just one digit off from this week's release, 10J868.
On the heels of the release of iOS 4.3, Apple is expected to introduce an incremental update for its mobile devices, including the new iPad 2, to patch a newly discovered security hole in the Safari Web browser.
A vulnerability for the iOS mobile operating system was exposed this week at the Pwn2Own hacking contest by researcher Charlie Miller. As first reported by Redmond Pie, Miller noted on Twitter that he won the iPhone-specific portion of the event with his hack, but also communicated with Apple to share the exploit he used.
We hope you would have seen the iOS 4.3 untethered jailbreak videofrom the hacker Stefan Esser (@i0n1c). Stefan has tweeted that there will be no iOS 4.3 untethered jailbreak available to public until Apple releases its iOS 4.3.1.
If you remember well the iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2.1 was hacked using a small vulnerability in the Mobile Safari. This still exists in iOS 4.3 but Apple will not worry too much until hackers find a way to bypass the ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization).
Many retailers and Apple stores ran out of the computer company’s second-generation iPad tablet within hours of its first availability, suggesting that initial sales could well surpass those of the first version.
Queues at Apple stores in New York, San Francisco and elsewhere wrapped around city blocks, with some people waiting for hours only to find that iPad 2 supplies were gone or limited to the more expensive models with wireless service from carriers AT&T or Verizon.
A tweak delivered via the iOS 4.3 update is designed to prevent kids from inadvertently racking up huge in-app purchase bills to their parents' iTunes accounts. iOS 4.3 now has a separate 15-minute time window for making in-app purchases after a new app has been downloaded, requiring a user to enter a password before any new in-app purchases can be made. The move comes just a month after complaints from irate parents inspired US Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) to request the FTC investigate the matter.
The iPhone 5 is set to be powered by the same A5 dual-core processor as the iPad 2, according to developers who have looked into the inner workings of the iOS 4.3 firmware update The iOS 4.3 release code contains a kernel for a device named N94AP, which is widely tipped by developers to be the codename for the iPhone 5.
Security researchers have discovered four critical vulnerabilities involving Apple's QuickTime media player software and the download application for Apple's iTunes music store. The flaws create a means for hackers to take control of affected systems, according to eEye Digital Security, the firm that discovered the bugs.
Apple today patched a record 62 vulnerabilities in Safari 5, updating the Mac and Windows browser to version 5.0.4. Wednesday's Safari security update was released at the same time as iOS 4.3, which fixed many of the same flaws.
But Apple's update missed the cut-off for the Pwn2Own contest, which starts today and pits researchers against four browsers -- including Safari, Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox -- as the hackers vie for $65,000 in cash prizes.
Apple has released iOS 4.3 a few days ahead of schedule for iPhone 4 (GSM only) and 3GS, iPad, and 4th-generation iPod touch. The update, which comes via iTunes, brings with it the personal hotspot feature carried over from the Verizon (CDMA) iPhone, the ability to stream video and photos to an Apple TV via AirPlay, HD video out, and more.
Alongside the release of iOS 4.3, which injected some Nitro into Safari's JavaScript engine, Apple has shipped a Java security update for both Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, Security Watch reports. The update patches no fewer than 27 vulnerabilities, including an exploit through which hackers could hijack your Mac by running an attack code.
Apple declined to say how the vulnerabilities might be exploited to "execute arbitrary code"; however, the patch, the first since last fall, ought to be considered a critical download.
