Signal Catalog #2: OSX Vulnerable, Amazon Dumps Google, RIM Accused Again, Firefox Fix and Slip
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Mac OS X Vulnerabilities
Mac OS X is losing its reputation for being a safe and carefree place with reports
of a virus and vulnerabilities making
the news these
days (which seems to be the iChat
trojan from February that really has nothing to do with a vulnerability but just
careless / clueless users). But Tom Ferris has reported a number of actual vulnerabilities
to Apple. What I found interesting was his assessment that Apple is in the same situation
Microsoft was in a few years ago: increasing security problems but not really knowing
how to deal with security issues (source: AP via Wired and CNN).
Amazon Cuddles Up to Microsoft
Without much fanfare, Amazon has switched from Google to Microsoft for search results
for A9 and Alexa (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/amazon-drops-google-from-a9-and-alexa.html).
Poor RIM
Looks like Research in Motion (the Blackberry folks) are in for a new
round of patent lawsuits. And the plaintiff-to-be has already won a patent infringement
case.
Firefox Patch / New Feature Dropped
An update for Firefox to fix a known security issue is coming this week. And a completely
rewritten bookmarking feature called Places is being dropped from Firefox 2.0, which
is supposed to come out this year. Apparently it just was not going to well-baked
enough to include in 2.0. Presumably we'll see it eventually. What I've heard is that
without Places the new release should just be Firefox 1.6 since the other changes
are just incremental. (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125598,00.asp)
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