Software

Centrify Announces Day One Support for Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion With Active Directory-Based Security and Management – Marketwatch

SUNNYVALE, CA, Jul 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, mobile devices and applications …

Why did Facebook fall out of Apple’s Mountain Lion? – Fortune Tech

What happened? The speculation among developers is that Apple and Facebook agreed for reasons unknown to wait for the release of iOS 6, also scheduled for this fall. But you never know what’s going on behind the scenes. You may … Continue reading

Mac OS X Targeted By Clever New Trojan – PC World

At this point it would be cliché to echo the same ominous warnings that are issued every time a new malware threat targets Mac OS X. I think all but the most naïve of Apple users understand that the days … Continue reading

Is Mountain Lion worth the money? Video – CNET News

… I’m Brian Tong and welcome to the Apple byte for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple and the big news this. — tax out of the bag. — was released OS-X outline for 1995 through … Continue reading

From Black Hat: Apple’s Debut Falls Short – New York Times Blogs

Last April, security experts discovered that a new piece of malware, called Flashback, had affected more than half a million Mac users in the largest-scale attack on Apple’s Mac OS X operating system to date. A year earlier, researchers …

Create password-protected docs on Mac and iOS with Password Pad – CNet

If you’d like to keep some of your files from prying eyes, Password Pad lets you create text documents and protect them with either XOR encryption or Triple DES encryption and share them via e-mail, iCloud, Dropbox, or iTunes file … Continue reading

With OS X Mountain Lion Loose, Will iCloud Roar? – Wired News

Apple released its Mountain Lion OS into the general public on Wednesday, and as posted here at Cloudline when it was first outlined, one big deal is how it integrates Apple’s cloud service, iCloud. But there’s a problem: Developers seem … Continue reading

Is Mountain Lion worth an upgrade? – Washington Post

It is dead simple to create group chats much like you send email to multiple recipients. You can send messages to email addresses associated with a friend’s iCloud ID or to their phone number. And there is PowerNap, a feature … Continue reading

Apple security guru lays out iPad, iPhone crypto architecture at Black Hat – Computerworld

Network World – A top Apple security guru Thursday presented an in-depth view into the security architecture for iOS, the basis of iPhones and iPad tablets, underscoring the complex certificate-based encryption framework Apple has adopted.

Apple Gets Philosophical About iOS Security In First Black Hat Appearance – CRN

Page 1 of 2 Apple made its first official appearance at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Thursday, with Senior Security Product Manager Window Snyder and other members of Apple’s security team watching the historic event unfold from … Continue reading