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MacBook breached in hack-a Mac contest

News The successful hack comes a day after Apple release its fourth security update for Mac OS X this year. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the 'PWN to Own' hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.

23 April 2007, 9:50

How the XP-on-Mac contest was won

News The second major step is partitioning the hard drive on your Mac to have two partitions -- one for Windows and one for OS X. Nederkoorn, a Mac enthusiast who works in the shipping industry, offered up a $100 (£57) bounty for the first person who...

17 March 2006, 11:52

News.blog: WWDC set to be big for Apple

News Expect to hear new details about the future of Apple's Mac OS X and The Unofficial Apple Weblog reported on Wednesday that Apple would be providing developers with an early version of Mac OS X 10.6 during the conference.

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6 June 2008, 9:35

Apple patches Leopard with 'huge' update

News Apple has released an update to Mac OS X patching over 40 security holes, as detailed in Security Update 2008-003/Mac OS X 10.5.3. The update, released on Wednesday, plugs flaws that render OS X Leopard users vulnerable to systems compromises...

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30 May 2008, 8:56

Mac cloners offer software updates

News Psystar, a Florida-based company that last month began selling generic PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system pre-installed in the US, has addressed one of the major shortcomings of the systems by offering bug fixes and software updates.

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29 May 2008, 8:50

Apple dishes out dozens of fixes for OS X

News Apple has released what seems to be one of its larger security updates for Mac OS X, doling out fixes for 44 flaws. The flaws affect Apple's Mac OS 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 operating system software and related server software.

17 August 2005, 9:01

Apple backs up with new Time Machine

News Fox's Delorean in Back to the Future, the next version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system will come with a feature that lets users travel back in time. The software saves the 'deltas', or the changes from one version of the file to a newer...

8 August 2006, 9:31

OS X flaw endangers Macs

News A serious flaw in Mac OS X could be a conduit for attackers to install malicious code on computers running the Apple software, experts warned on Tuesday. The new problem lies in the way Mac OS X processes archive files.

22 February 2006, 9:09

Macs are not invincible

News Apple's fans have long loved to point out the safety of using Mac OS X, which has mostly been left to its own devices by hackers. Some have suggested that Mac OS X's previous immunity to threats is due partly to malicious coders focusing on...

28 February 2006, 10:08

Apple reveals Leopard's spots

News Apple on Monday introduced the Mac Pro, the company's first Intel-based professional desktop, and also gave developers a preview of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X. Jobs led the attendees back through the major enhancements to the Mac OS X...

8 August 2006, 10:33

Apple IM hit by 'first ever' OS X malware

News A malicious program that could be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system has been discovered, security experts confirmed on Thursday. The file appeared as an external link promising pre-release screenshots of the...

17 February 2006, 10:04

No Vista on Apple's horizon

News Mac fans have held out considerable hope that the next version of Windows would be easier to load on Macs than Windows XP, because like Mac OS X, Vista will use Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) to aid the boot process.

10 March 2006, 9:29

The iPod grows up

News If Apple really is putting a version of Mac OS X in a new iPod, presumably it has more in mind than showing high-quality reruns of The Hills. It also seems very likely that those new iPods will run the same stripped-down version of Mac OS X found...

5 September 2007, 8:32

Leopard users encounter 'blue screen'

News Following its release on Friday, Mac OS X Leopard users have been encountering the dreaded 'blue screen' error when trying to install the operating system. Some Mac users upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard over the weekend have reported their systems...

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29 October 2007, 8:51

Apple update fixes iMac video problem

News On Tuesday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.5, an update to Mac OS X Tiger. The OS update also fixes a number of other issues, including a bug that prevented streaming media from working properly behind a firewall on the new iMacs.

16 February 2006, 9:16