My GMail spam count jumped 13% to 343 spam messages in the last 30 days. This was up from 303 last week. My second GMail account hasn’t received any new phishing emails and was spam free. I continue to get a small number of spam emails to my ISP account. This is one that I’ve [...] Read more »
Security Update 2007-006 for Apple OS X
Apple has released a security-only update for OS X. It’s the appropriately named Security Update 2007-006 as Apple has released one security update a month so far this year. This update is needed for 10.4.9 along with the just released 10.4.10. It’s also needed for 10.3.9. The security update addresses two vulnerabilities. One is in [...] Read more »
Apple Releases 10.4.10 for OS X
Apple has released OS X version 10.4.10. While it contains several enhancements and fixes for the operating system it also includes one security related update. This security update keeps Apple in the one-a-month category for security updates to OS X. This security vulnerability is described by Apple as: …the reception of specially crafted IPv6 packets [...] Read more »
Apple TV Security Update
Apple has released their first security update for Apple TV. According the bulletin a remote attacker can cause a denial of service attack or arbitrary code execution. This patches the same flaw that was plugged in OS X last month. At first I thought this was interesting but probably not a problem. Apple TV’s seem [...] Read more »
Disabling Snap Shots Website Preview
Snap Shots are the preview popups that appear when you when you mouse over a URL on some websites or blogs. They seem to be gaining in popularity on some blogs. They function like Intellitxt Ads but they aren’t advertising and they’re controlled by the site owner. Even though they aren’t advertising some of us [...] Read more »