Entries Tagged as 'bug'
Posted under bug, Apple on October 9th, 2008 by admin
tdalek writes “You may remember the recent Slashdot article about Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop exposing authentication information. It turns out that more that other Yahoo! applications are affected, although to a lesser degree. With Yahoo!’s desktop program, it transmitted the usernames and passwords in plaintext. Yahoo! is one of the lucky few default e-mail providers on the iPhone; sadly it looks like Apple didn’t insist on encryption from Yahoo! On the iPhone, authentication is encrypted, but you can see all the messages sent and received in plaintext. Incoming messages are downloaded in plaintext over the standard imap port. Outgoing mail is a bit harder to find, it is apparently sent by an HTTP post request wrapped up inside a bundle of XML, but security through obscurity isn’t very effective. If you have Yahoo! mail on your iPhone (and since its one of the default accounts, I’m assuming quite a few do), now would be a good time to forward it elsewhere for the time being, and using that account instead.”
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Posted under bug, Apple on October 9th, 2008 by admin
tdalek writes “You may remember the recent Slashdot article about Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop exposing authentication information. It turns out that more Yahoo! applications are affected, although to a lesser degree. With Yahoo!’s desktop program, it transmitted the usernames and passwords in plaintext. Yahoo! is one of the lucky few default e-mail providers on the iPhone; sadly it looks like Apple didn’t insist on encryption from Yahoo! On the iPhone, authentication is encrypted, but you can see all the messages sent and received in plaintext. Incoming messages are downloaded in plaintext over the standard imap port. Outgoing mail is a bit harder to find, it is apparently sent by an HTTP post request wrapped up inside a bundle of XML, but security through obscurity isn’t very effective. If you have Yahoo! mail on your iPhone (and since its one of the default accounts, I’m assuming quite a few do), now would be a good time to forward it elsewhere for the time being.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted under bug, patch, firefox, update, Commentary, software, security, Apple on September 24th, 2008 by admin
The Mozilla crew have updated Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 to address security vulnerabilities and (in the case of version 3) bugs & usability issues, including fixes for Mac-specific bugs.
Firefox 3 had five security issues including two critical ones that could lead to either memory corruption or privilege escalation. Firefox 2 fixed nine security vulnerabilities, […]
Posted under bug, Apple on September 11th, 2008 by admin
CWmike writes “Apple ’s latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple’s support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the ‘blue screen of death.’ The errors began showing up immediately after updating iTunes to Version 8.0, which Apple released Tuesday as part of its iPod refresh. ‘I just installed iTunes 8 over my iTunes 7 on Vista [and] now whenever I plug in my iPod, I get a blue screen death. Three times so far. Even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen,” said a user identified as ’sambeckett’ on the support forum about 90 minutes after Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up the iPod launch.”
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Posted under bug, Apple on September 11th, 2008 by admin
CWmike writes “Apple ’s latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple’s support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the ‘blue screen of death.’ The errors began showing up immediately after updating iTunes to Version 8.0, which Apple released Tuesday as part of its iPod refresh. ‘I just installed iTunes 8 over my iTunes 7 on Vista [and] now whenever I plug in my iPod, I get a blue screen death. Three times so far. Even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen,” said a user identified as ’sambeckett’ on the support forum about 90 minutes after Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up the iPod launch.”
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Posted under spell checking, spelling, bug, leopard, software, Apple on July 10th, 2008 by admin
We trust spellcheckers to be right, right? We expect that the spellchecker will yield an accurate correction, or at the least, real words. Oddly enough, though, I’ve stumbled upon a few misspellings that cause Leopard’s built-in spellchecker to throw up some amusing–though incorrect–results (a friend shared one with me; I discovered two of them). Mind […]
Posted under bug, Apple on April 8th, 2008 by admin
canadacow writes “iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently ‘expired’ the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Apple has yet to release a new deployment of the iPhone OS. So developers like myself who use their iPhone for both actual phone and iPod use are bricked. Of note, this particular expired build is just 11 days old.”
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Posted under bug, Apple on December 31st, 2007 by admin
pdclarry writes “Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for “tomorrow” items.”
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Posted under bsod, bug, leopard, Reader Feedback, Apple on November 5th, 2007 by admin
Separate from the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death - it’s generally a Windows term, if you’re somehow unaware…) that some folks experienced after upgrading to Leopard, there’s word of a new bluish, or greenish tint that’s occurring on some user’s screens. Up until now I’ve been familiar with the bluish tint that results from […]
Posted under bug, Apple on November 5th, 2007 by admin
An anonymous reader writes “Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server.”
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