Apple Response to Trojan Warning [Updated]
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Apple responds to Trojan Horse warning
Apple responds to Trojan Horse warning
04/09/2004 04:08 PMApple has responded to the Trojan Horse security advisory issued by
Intego on Thursday...
Mac OS X Trojan Warning
Mac OS X Trojan Warning
04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Intego issued a security warning regarding a concept Trojan on Mac OS
X.Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an .mp3 extension,
rather th...
Intego issues Mac OS X Trojan Horse
warning
Intego issues Mac OS X Trojan Horse
warning
04/09/2004 03:55 PMMacintosh security specialists,
Intego on Thursday issued a security
warning to its customers for the first Trojan horse to affect Mac OS
X. Dubbed MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen), the Trojan horse exploits a
weakness in Mac OS X where applications can appear to be other types
of files, according to the company.
Apple iTunes and Apple Store (PowerMac
Price) Glitches? [Updated]
Apple iTunes and Apple Store (PowerMac
Price) Glitches? [Updated]
12/02/2003 12:22 AM
Several readers noted that Apple's iTunes Music Store has had some
strange behavior this morning with song and genre links behaving
erratically. The ...
Apple responds to Trojan Horse Advisory
Apple responds to Trojan Horse Advisory
04/09/2004 03:55 PMApple Computer Inc. responded on
Friday to an
advisory
issued by security software-maker Intego on Thursday. Apple said
they were aware of the issue outlined by
Intego and that they were
investigating. While one security analyst doesn't feel this is a very
big deal, he does note that this incident gives absolute proof of the
vulnerability.
Apple reponds to Trojan Horse threat
Apple reponds to Trojan Horse threat
04/09/2004 05:20 PMApple has responded to the
Trojan Horse security
advisory issued by Intego on Thursday. "We are aware of the
potential issue identified by Intego and are working proactively to
investigate it," Apple said in a statement. "While no operating system
can be completely secure from all threats, Apple has an excellent
track record of identifying and rapidly correcting potential
vulnerabilities."
Intego has also posted a Q&A page, which
includes some misinformation.
Apple responds to Trojan Horse Advisory
(MacCentral)
Apple responds to Trojan Horse Advisory
(MacCentral)
04/09/2004 08:01 PMMacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. responded on Friday to an advisory
issued by security software-maker Intego on Thursday. Apple said they
were aware of the issue outlined by Intego and that they were
investigating. While one security analyst doesn't feel this is a very
big deal, he does note that this incident gives absolute proof of the
vulnerability.
Intego warns of second Trojan Horse;
Apple, MS respond (MacCentral)
Intego warns of second Trojan Horse;
Apple, MS respond (MacCentral)
05/12/2004 06:59 PMMacCentral - For the second time in just over a month, Macintosh
security company, Intego has issued an advisory warning customers of a
Trojan Horse (AS.MW2004.Trojan) on Mac OS X. The latest advisory,
posted to the company's Web site on Wednesday, warns of a Trojan Horse
downloaded from the LimeWire peer-to-peer network -- the file had an
icon that appeared to be an installer for Microsoft Office 2004.
Microsoft warned users of downloading from sources other than them and
analysts even question using the term "Trojan" for the advisory.
Apple X11 Library Warning
Apple X11 Library Warning
03/13/2003 10:15 AM
While Apple's X11 works just fine with existing binaries, it
has a bug in the install name of the libraries that can cause some
software to build incorrectly, and will break forward-compatibility
with future X11 releases.
Ben Hines has created a script (available here) that you can use
that will fix the install_name entries in Apple's X11 libraries,
but it will not repair software you have already built against the
broken libraries.
Update 11 February 2003: This script is not needed with
version 0.2 of Apple's X11.app which was released yesterday.
Re: a dangerous fast spreading (yet
simple) trojan horse (Now
IRC.Trojan.Fgt)
Re: a dangerous fast spreading (yet
simple) trojan horse (Now
IRC.Trojan.Fgt)
10/28/2003 11:06 PMK-OTiK Security (Oct 28 2003)
in response to Outkast's Hey Ya,
Polaroid have published an faq response
on their site
in response to Outkast's Hey Ya,
Polaroid have published an faq response
on their site
02/17/2004 01:18 AMShould I really “shake it like a Polaroid picture?” ..
quit shaking our
pictures
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adp.php?p_lva=&p_faqid=2509&p_created=1073918271
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Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
Apple Backup Updated to v2.0
11/10/2003 11:21 PMApple's
Backup, part of
the .Mac suite, has been updated to v2.0 with a few useful new
features, such as using external hard drives for backups.
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignMore Apple Patents [Updated]
More Apple Patents [Updated]
12/24/2004 12:35 PM
News.com covers some recently published patent applications from
Apple.
The list includes technologies related to Expose, Video conferencing,
music...
Apple Hot Deals updated
Apple Hot Deals updated
11/05/2003 03:36 PMApple's
Hot Deals site
outlines deals and specials offered to Mac users from a selection of
retailers allied with Apple. The site has recently been updated with
news about new deals.
Apple: eMacs Updated
Apple: eMacs Updated
04/13/2004 08:46 AM
Apple updates its eMac line with USB 2.0 and faster CPU and graphics
performance.
Apple: eMac Updated
Apple: eMac Updated
04/13/2004 10:04 AM
Apple updates its eMac line with USB 2.0 and faster CPU and graphics
performance.
Apple Store Hot Deals updated
Apple Store Hot Deals updated
03/14/2005 06:28 PMThe online Apple Store has updated its Hot Deals section with its
latest bargains...
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, and more
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, and more
06/18/2004 11:28 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
includes links to offers from participating Mac software and hardware
resellers. The latest updates include links to specials at the Apple
Store itself, like refurbished iBooks, PowerBooks and more. ClubMac
has offers on Griffin's SightLight, the LaCie 500GB Big Disk and more.
O'Reilly has offers on popular Mac books like "Inside .Mac" and "Cocoa
in a Nutshell."
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, more
Apple Store Hot Deals updated, more
09/15/2004 11:05 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
links to Apple hardware and software resellers that have special
offers for their customers, including Apple's own online Apple Store.
That site has been updated with new links, including the JBL On Stage,
the new donut-shaped iPod speaker system, an exclusive through
December. MacMall has updated deals including Microsoft Office 2004
Student and Teacher Edition, Logitech MX1000 Cordless Laser Mouse and
more. And CDW|MacWarehouse's new deals include Sony's CyberShot
DSC-P93 Digital Camera, LaCie Big Disk 1 Terabyte external drive and
more.
Apple Hot Deals updated with CDW, OWC
info
Apple Hot Deals updated with CDW, OWC
info
05/26/2004 01:43 PMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
features links to retailers who offer specials on Macintosh hardware
and software products. The latest updates to the site include new
content from CDW|MacWarehouse, which is offering Canon's LV 5210 LCD
projector, Sony 512MB MicroVault flash drive and other products; and
Other World Computing, which is offering a 160GB hard disk bundled
with Dantz Retrospect, Griffin's iTrip FM transmitter for iPod and
more.
Apple Store, OWC Hot Deals updated
Apple Store, OWC Hot Deals updated
03/06/2004 02:09 AMApple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings
from the Apple Store and Other World Computing (OWC)...
Apple-History.com updated with new
products
Apple-History.com updated with new
products
08/10/2004 03:53 AMThe folks at Apple-History.com, a Web site devoted to documenting the
history of Apple Computer's product releases over the years, let us
know that the site has been updated to include the latest PowerBooks,
iBooks, Power Macs and eMacs...
Apple Hot Deals site updated
Apple Hot Deals site updated
10/29/2003 02:45 PMApple's Hot Deals site brings readers information on bargains and
specials available from affiliated advertisers. The site has once
again been updated with new content.
Apple pushing iTunes for Windows in
updated ads
Apple pushing iTunes for Windows in
updated ads
11/03/2003 11:12 AMApple has slightly modified its new iPod commercials to also promote
iTunes for Windows...
Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED
Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED
02/01/2005 08:37 PMCory Doctorow:
Apple's DVD players are subject to restrictive rules laid out by
greedy Hollywood studios that don't really care if they piss off
Apple's customers, since that's Apple's lookout. However, I've just
discovered, to my amazement, that Apple imposes its very own
restrictions on its DVD players over and above those imposed by the
studios: that's right, Apple
voluntarily treats its customers
worse than the studios say it has to.
In the crazy world of DRM for DVDs, there's this idea that a Hollywood
studio should be able to tell you where you're allowed to watch a DVD
after you buy it. They accomplish this with something called "Region
Codes." Discs have region-codes and players have region-codes. If you
have a Region 1 disc (US and Canada) and a Region 2 player (Europe),
and you put the disc in the player, the player will reject it.
But what happens when you take your laptop from New York to London?
You're in Region 2, but you bought your device in Region 1.
Can you buy a disc in London and play it on your computer?
Yes and no. When a computer manufacturer gets a DVD-decoding license
from Hollywood's licensing cartel (the DVD Copy Control Association or
CCA), it is allowed to make players that can change regions up to five
times.
What's more, once the region-switches have run out, computer companies
can reset your counter at a service depot a further five times. That
means that you get 25 region-switches. This sucks pretty bad: I moved
from San Francisco to London with hundreds of Region 1 DVDs and now
when I buy a movie in the shop, it's Region 2. That means that if I
watch a movie from my US collection once a week, and once from my UK
connection the next week, I'll run out of region switches in three
months. Three months after moving to the UK, I'll have to throw out
half my DVDs.
So, basically, I don't watch my DVDs. Sometimes, though, I'm weak, and
I tune into one and squander one of my precious region switches. Now
my nearly-new Powerbook has only one switch left out of its initial
five, and so I brought it to Apple to get them to reset the counter.
It needed service anyway (I'm on my fifth or sixth screen replacement
for the defect in the 15" machines that causes the "white blobs" to
obscure the display), so it seemed like a good time to do it.
I know that Apple is allowed to do this. How do I know? Well, when
EFF went to the Copyright Office and asked it to give us an exemption
to the DMCA to make tools for watching out-of-region DVDs, Time-Warner
showed up and told us this:
"And, the way it works, and I apologize because it's a little bit
complicated, the consumer can set it five times. After the fifth time
that they've reset it, they do have an ability to reset it again, but
they have to bring the drive to an authorized dealer or an authorized
service representative, who can then authorize an additional set of
five changes, and then they can bring it back for a second, for a
third, fourth and fifth set of authorized changes. So you can change
it 25 times in total, but you have to go back for each set of five.
You only get the first five when you buy the ROM drive itself."
That was Dean Marks, from AOL Time Warner. Straight from the horse's
mouth, testifying to the US government.
But when my Powerbook was ready for pickup, Apple left me a voicemail
saying that they couldn't reset my DVD player, that doing so would
void my warranty.
When I went into the Apple Store in London to get the machine, I asked
about it. I wanted this in writing: if they had a policy that said
that they couldn't fix my region-counter, I wanted to be able to tell
Dean Marks about it the next time we went to the Copyright Office and
ask him why Apple thought it couldn't reset my counter.
Apple refused to put it into writing. They refused to let me record
them telling me they couldn't fix my Powerbook. They wouldn't even put
in writing that they were referring me to the legal department.
Eventually I spoke to the manager, who promised to get back to me the
next day.
The next day, he did. He told me that he'd spoken to legal and that
they wouldn't put anything in writing. However, they did have some
documents on their website they printed for me that talk about DVDs.
- DVD Player: About DVD-Video Regions, last modified July 16, 2004,
technical contributor J Scalo. This document describes the different
regions, saying that after five region-switches, "the drive is
permanently set to use that region, and you cannot make any more
changes."
Interestingly, this also contains something labeled APPLE EYES ONLY
that says that
On Wallstreet and PDQ (PowerBook G3 Series M4753), the number of
region code changes remaining is not stored in the firmware of the DVD
drive but rather in the DVD extension and NVRAM. This information
should absolutely not be conveyed to the customer.
In extreme customer satisfaction situations you can reset the region
change count by following this procedure:
- Reset PRAM/NVRAM by pressing Fn-Ctrl-Shift-Power while the
computer is turned off
- Startup with system extensions off.
- Restart with system extensions on.
Note: This procedure resets some of the customer's custom settings.
After following this procedure, the region change count for the drive
is reset to five.
In later PowerBook models, the region count is stored in the firmware
of the drive and cannot be reset with this procedure.
- Changing the region code of your DVD drive, last modified on
January 23, 2004. This document says that you can only change your
region code five times. "After that, the region code is set
permanently and you cannot change it."
So there's two things going on here that I'm pretty pissed off about:
- The studios have screwed the electronics companies with this
region code business and I have to throw out my DVDs or buy an extra
Powerbook or something
- Worse, though: Apple has a policy about region-changing that is
more restrictive than it has to be: they're playing for the
other side. This really stinks and makes me wonder why I should keep
on buying Apple hardware.
Lots of Apple execs read Boing Boing. If you have a reply on this,
email me and I'll be happy to discuss it with you.
Update: Many of you have written to point out
that VLC plays out of
region DVDs on a Powerbook. That's nice, but it doesn't work reliably
on my Powerbook.
Update 2: Thanks for all the tips on how to
hack my Powerbook or change its firmware. I'm afraid that I'm not in
the market for this, though, tempting as it is, as I've been informed
that using these tools will void my warranty.
Apple Store, Amazon Hot Deals updated
Apple Store, Amazon Hot Deals updated
04/20/2004 11:16 AMApple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings
from the online Apple Store and Amazon.com...
Apple Hot Deals updated with MacMall
specials
Apple Hot Deals updated with MacMall
specials
03/06/2004 01:55 AMApple's
Hot Deals Web site is
often updated with special bargains from Mac hardware and software
retailers, and sometimes with info on special deals from Apple itself.
The latest update includes new deals from MacMall.
The Return of an Apple Cube... as an
iMac? [Updated]
The Return of an Apple Cube... as an
iMac? [Updated]
11/12/2003 01:24 PM
On November 7th, Kodawarisan posted a curious rumor about a redesigned
iMac case... in the form of a Cube. Translation by yamabushi:
A completely ...
Apple Remote Desktop Client updated
Apple Remote Desktop Client updated
12/16/2003 04:10 PMApple has released Apple Remote Desktop Client 1.2.4, which delivers
"improvements to security, performance, and reliability of the Apple
Remote Desktop 1.2 client software running on Mac OS X versions 10.1,
10.2 and 10.3."...
Apple Hot Deals updated from Amazon,
MacMall, more
Apple Hot Deals updated from Amazon,
MacMall, more
06/04/2004 12:26 PMApple's
Hot Deals Web site
features links to Mac hardware and software resellers. The site has
recently been updated from new offers including The Apple Store,
Amazon.com, MacMall, Publishing Perfection and O'Reilly. The Apple
Store features a 90 Days Same As Cash promotion, Amazon.com has
rebates on Viking CompactFlash cards, MacMall has offers on ATI's new
Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition, Publishing Perfection features
the Pantone Ultimate Deal, and O'Reilly has deals on some of its
popular Mac books.
Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues
Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues
12/19/2004 03:02 PMVersion 10.3.7 of the Mac OS X operating system addresses an issue
with some FireWire hard drives not mounting, as well as problems with
certain games' graphics.
Apple & Motorola Bring iTunes To Cell
Phones (UPDATED)
Apple & Motorola Bring iTunes To Cell
Phones (UPDATED)
07/27/2004 04:22 AMMac Observer Jul 27 2004 8:05AM GMT
HP, Apple partner on iPod-based device,
iTunes [updated]
HP, Apple partner on iPod-based device,
iTunes [updated]
01/08/2004 07:16 PMHP and Apple today announced a strategic alliance to deliver an
HP-branded digital music player based on Apple's iPod, and iTunes to
HP's customers...
TMO Reports - Apple & Motorola Bring
iTunes To Cell Phones (UPDATED)
TMO Reports - Apple & Motorola Bring
iTunes To Cell Phones (UPDATED)
07/27/2004 04:22 AMMac Observer Jul 27 2004 8:06AM GMT
Actual piracy on rise, response
orthagonal to RIAA's response to
"piracy"`
Actual piracy on rise, response
orthagonal to RIAA's response to
"piracy"`
01/27/2004 07:32 PMActual piracy is on the rise. That is to say, more people are boarding
more ships with more guns and shooting more people and taking more
cargo, all the while uttering more horrible cries of "ARRRRR."
Strangely, the shipping industry's response isn't to keelhaul
passengers who don't tip well on ocean cruises, or to hull random
pleasure boats, or to demand special bow-mounted lasers that vaporize
any ship that gets within a hundred miles.
Around the world, more than 20 sailors are known to have been murdered
by pirates last year.
Seventy are missing, presumed dead.
Other trends are also emerging: ships are now less likely to be
hijacked for their cargo; attackers, possibly from militant groups,
are seizing ships and ransoming their crew.
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Updated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
Updated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
06/08/2004 06:38 PMWe have re-updated our Microsoft Security Bulletin List for 2004. Be
sure to check it out to see if you missed any of the 17 bulletins
released this year.
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
05/19/2004 11:45 AMJesse Keating (May 19 2004)
Was There a Trojan War?
Was There a Trojan War?
05/26/2004 04:36 AMmore» .. Troy
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The Trojan that wasn't
The Trojan that wasn't
04/19/2004 08:32 PMGrok Description matches for Apple Response to Trojan Warning [Updated]
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Apple Response to Trojan Warning [Updated]
