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Archive for April 16th, 2012
Latest Mac trojan spreads through Microsoft Word documents
Kasperskky lab expert discovered that a new version of a backdoor trojan for Apple's OS X operating system takes advantage of an exploit in Microsoft Word to spread.
The new Mac-specific trojan, named "Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a," uses a Java exploit to infect targeted machine. It spreads through Microsoft Word documents that exploit a vulnerability known as "CVE-2009-0563." There are currently at least two variants of the "SabPub" trojan, which remains classified as an "active attack." It is expected that new variants of the bot will be released in the coming weeks, as the latest was created in March.
Leave a commentNew iPad arrives to 21 more countries soon
Apple just published a press release that confirms the new iPad 3 will launch in 12 additional countries this Friday, April 20. Along with the 12 countries listed below, Apple confirmed an April 27 international launch date for nine more countries:
In addition to South Korea, the new iPad also will be available beginning on Friday, April 20 in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand.
Official press release:
Apple Reportedly Looking to Launch 'iPad Mini' Priced at $249-$299 in Q3
Chinese web portal NetEase claims that Apple plans to launch a smaller "iPad mini" in the third quarter of this year.
NetEase claimed that the device will be released around the third quarter of this year to "counter attack" the upcoming Windows tablets, although smaller Android tablets such as Amazon's Kindle Fire have also been viewed as targets for Apple. The report further claims that the devices will cost anywhere from US$249 to $299 and that there will be an initial 6 million units ready for launch.
RedSn0w Updated to Fix Issue on OS X 10.5.x
The iPhone Dev-Team has released updated RedSn0w 0.9.10b6b for Mac OS that fixes an issue for those on Mac OS X 10.5.x or earlier.
Update #1b: The OS X version of redsn0w has been updated to fix an issue for those running OS X 10.5.x or earlier.
You can download the latest version of RedSn0w from here.
Our step-by-step tutorials for jailbreak iOS 5.1 using redsn0w 0.9.10b6 are here.