Are you sitting connected to an unsecured WiFi connection present in a shisha lounge or food cafe? Do you know how open your Mac or iOS is to various attackers in such an environment? Scared or worried? Looking for a solution? Welcome to the right place! A free app for iOS and Mac now allows you to secure your browsing on unsecure networks.
Recently people have started to believe their Macs getting viruses and Trojans and now a new Trojan is roaming around online which appears to be effecting OS X running Macs. The Trojan is written in an unknown programming language and does not require an administrator’s password to get around the security which is quite alarming. However, you can check easily if your device is effected by the Trojan or not by following the simple guide below:
The new CEO, Tim Cook, has his own ways of running Apple. The CEO recently made a friendly announcement stating that employees who were working with Apple for a period of more than 90 days will be entitled $500 discount on Macs and $250 discount on Apple iPads starting this June.
Absinthe is the tool that you would be looking for recently. It is the tool that allows users to jailbreak their A5 devices however Absinthe didn’t prove to be perfect at all. There have been loads of bugs that came with its release and now Absinthe for Mac has received yet another update, this time fixing the VPN and White Icon Errors.
Apple just seeded its latest Mac OS X Lion 10.3.7 build 11D46 to developers last night. The build claims to be issue free indicating that the public version will be launched soon.
According to a report published earlier this wee by Security lab F-Secure, Apple platform has faced a number of threats throughout 2011.
The report went on saying:
We prefer a more conservative approach when counting malware. The more generic and family based, the better..
Here are a number of tricks that can help one to select text within a web page or document in their OS X. Their are some built in Mac apps like TextEdit, Mozilla Firefox and more that can help select text in a number of useful ways which are far ahead than the simple dragging and clicking technique. Here are different shortcuts mentioned below one can use to select text:
