iOS

OS X Lion users affected. Passwords for Apple Mac FileVault are being stored in the clear due to a borked OS X security update issued in February. The security hole affected OS X Lion users under specific conditions and could … Continue reading →

A security flaw rolled out with Apple’s latest update to Mac OS X Lion, version 10.7.3, may expose file passwords thought to be protected via Apple’s data encryption system. According to InfoWorld, Apple’s first version of FileVault allowed …

Another week, another Apple Mac OS X security issue. The latest version of the operating system, Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion, under certain conditions generates a file that exposes user passwords in plain text. The file is visible to all … Continue reading →

Summary: An Apple developer enabled a debug log file in OS X 10.7.3 that stores user passwords in clear-text — and a user posted the flaw on Apple’s Support Communities over three months ago. Users of Apple’s FileVault encryption that … Continue reading →

Not quite a security update… One of Apple’s programmers, apparently by accident, has turned on a debug switch in the latest security update for Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3). CryptoMe’s David Emery, who discovered the fault, explained the mishap: “carefully … Continue reading →

Apple’s latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company’s encryption technology, a software consultant said. David I. Emery wrote on Cryptome that a … Continue reading →

Last Friday, a security researcher warned Mac users of a programming oversight in Mac OSX 10.7 Lion, that exposed encrypted passwords. According to an email from David Emery, owner of DIE Consulting in Massachusetts, Apple accidentally left a debug option … Continue reading →

Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with…

Until Apple brought it back this year. The upcoming release of Apple’s flagship OS, called Mountain Lion (or 10.8 for those who don’t count in cats), features a new protection system named, with unusual candor, Gatekeeper. It prevents …

Rui Viana isn’t a full-time app developer and he hasn’t learned how to use Apple’s iOS software development kit. Yet last week his newly released iPad game, Cargo-Bot, managed to become of the top 10 most downloaded iPad apps in the … Continue reading →