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Hacker Group Claims Apple Data Breach, Offers Little Proof

The group posted what it claimed was a list of users from the database, but the information appears old and offers up little to verify it actually came from Apple’s servers. Hackers claim to have downloaded user data from Apple’s servers 1775 Sec announced …
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SSCC 127 – Target, Microsoft, Apple, Gmail…and some amazing acoustics [PODCAST]

Chet and Duck help you to learn from recent security news, both good and bad. In this episode: the massive Target breach; Microsoft’s and Apple’s attitude to updates; and how to respond to Google’s recent changes to image rendering for Gmail users.
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Apple updates Mavericks to 10.9.1, issues security fixes for Safari

Apple just announced the first point update for its recently released OS X Mavericks. Most of the fixes and enhancements are of the not-really-to-do-with-security sort, but the update includes a new version of Safari, with remote code execution patches.
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Mac hacking competition winner mocks Apple security

Gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings”, according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On 22 February, the Sweden-based Mac …
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