Apple and Mozilla – ‘Just say no to Java’
After the recent discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s Java Web Start plugin Apple and Mozilla are now disabling Java by default until fixes are made available.
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Fake Apple invoices lead to Blackhole exploit kit that drains your bank account
A new round of spams proclaims you have been charged for a large purchase from Apple. All links lead to webpages infected with the Blackhole exploit kit. Be cautious with your online shopping this holiday season.
Naked Security – Sophos
Apple Knocks Out Android in Mobile Security [INFOGRAPHIC] – Mashable
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Apple Knocks Out Android in Mobile Security [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mashable You could be carrying a virus with you everywhere you go. This new strand doesn't target the immune system, but rather the operating system — on your smartphone. Smartphone usage has skyrocketed over the past few years. There are now more than 1 … |
Apple Fusion Drive—wait, what? How does this work?
We got a slide this morning, but does anyone understand the Apple Fusion Drive yet?
Apple’s new iMac announcement today included an interesting bit of information on an upcoming technology Apple calls “Fusion Drive.” According to Phil Schiller this morning, the technology takes a relatively small solid state disk and a relatively large spinning hard disk drive, then “fuses” them together into a single drive.
Speculation in the Ars forums started immediately, with most wondering if “Fusion Drive” works the same as current hybrid disk drives. Those incorporate some amount of NAND flash inside a traditional hard disk drive as an extended cache. Others speculated the Apple technology resembles something like Intel’s Smart Response Technology, which uses a dedicated SSD (of up to 64GB in size) as a transparent cache for a larger hard disk drive.
Technical details are scarce, but based on Schiller’s descriptions, the answer to both of those questions appears to be “no.” Apple’s Fusion Drive does not appear to function like an SSD-backed disk cache, but rather seems more like a file-level implementation of a feature that has existed for some time in big enterprise disk arrays: automatic tiering.
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