Security and Privacy

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Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp

To my way of thinking this means that Apple have finally admitted that Windows has a wider user base and is more functional than any Mac OS

However anybody attempting to install any version of windows on a mac computer should be aware that Apple have not and will not issue W7 compatible drivers for much of their hardware so not everything will work using Windows on a Mac

Research In Motion has plugged a security hole that left BlackBerry users open to phishing attacks.

The bug lies in the BlackBerry browser dialog box, which provides information about Website domain names and their associated certificates. While the dialog box informs users when there is a mismatch between site domain names and domain names indicated in associated certificates, it does not properly illustrate that the mismatch is due to the presence of some hidden characters in the site domain name.

As a result, users can be fooled more easily into logging on to malicious sites. Continue reading…