- It's the applications, stupid
- Will a whitelist save personal computing?
- Thousands of Web sites under attack
- To solve the unsolvable problem
- Re-thinking the security of virtual machines
- Security Development Lifecycle trumps code complexity
- Is your Web site FIPS compliant?
- Computer security: Why have least privilege?
- Strategic security: Get a handle on authentication
- Control user installs of software
October 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Apple ships virus with iPods
Apple apparently shipped about 1% of the latest iPods with a computer virus installed.
Apple is far from the first vendor to do this, but with all the vendors it has happened to lately, it makes you wonder how strong their other security policies are enforced at third party manufacturing plants?
Click here for the story.
Here's a link to McAfee's site on the virus.
On a completely different, but slightly related note, I'm in love with the CopyPod program. When I upgraded iTunes from 7.0x to the latest version last week, all my music and podcast library disappeared. When I tried to re-import my exported library, iTunes said the file format was not recognized. With 688 songs (it's only a 4GB version), I didn't relish re-installing all that music, most of it from my own physical CDs. CopyPod ($20) recovered the music from my iPod and re-sync'd it with iTunes. Best $20 I've spent this week.
Posted by Roger Grimes on October 17, 2006 05:21 PM
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