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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Several Updates Yesterday From Apple

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 09:00 AM

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ty_updates.html

"Apple on Wednesday afternoon issued a number of updates, addressing high processor usage and other glitches in its 27-inch iMac, as well as various security updates for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard."

Not only did Apple release updates yesterday for the 27-inch iMac and for their Server Admin Tools, they also issued a patch to fix a security vulnerability that was identified by Charlie Miller in the annual Pwn2Own contest. The 27-inch iMac "EFI FW Update 1.0" update "resolves an issue that sometimes caused high processor utilization while playing audio through the headphone output mini-jack, and resolves an issue that prevented the display backlight from turning on after powering on the iMac." You can find more information about the security updates from Apple's support page.


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

A Patch to go Along With Your New MacBook Pro

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 10:30 AM

http://www.macworld.com/article/150...l?lsrc=rss_main

"If you're already the proud owner of one of the brand new 15- or 17-inch MacBook Pros that were released on Tuesday, we've got some news for you. Fire up Software Update, and you'll be greeted with your very first patch. Talk about efficient."

Software Update 1.3 is for all mid 2010 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pros, and it addresses some issues with the graphics hardware. You can find the update here, or via the Software Update feature.


Thursday, March 11, 2010

MS Office Patches Excel

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 10:00 AM

http://www.macworld.com/article/146...l?lsrc=rss_main

"According to a Microsoft security bulletin, seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Excel could allow remote code execution if a user were to open a specially-crafted file. By exploiting those vulnerabilities, an attacker could gain the same user rights as a local user."

So in order to fix this, Microsoft released two updates, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.4 Update and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.8 Update. These updates will, as described by Microsoft, take care of “vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.” The updates will also improve stability and slow performance.

Microsoft also brought out two other updates: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition 13.0.4 (which will now allow you to synchronize notes, tasks, and categories with Exchange Server), and Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.1.4 (which lets you convert Open XML files created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows).


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