Apple bitten by watchdog
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UK watchdog the Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that Apple is ripping off its UK customers. The investigation follows a complaint that UK customers were having to shell out more for the reassuringly
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A bug in Apple Inc.'s popular iTunes music player and online store software could be used by hackers to run malicious code on a compromised PC or Mac.
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Industry-watchers bicker over Apple's next likely move in consumer electronics.
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Vivendi condemned as &quot;indecent&quot; the  contract terms between its Universal Music Group (UMG) unit and  Apple Inc, the computer maker whose iTunes online store  dominates the digital music market.
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New allegations surface that Apple CEO was involved in improperly backdating movie studio stock-option grants.
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Podpodpod Podpodpod Letters Let's get started. You all had lots to say about Apple (and when is it ever any different) and its Pod lawsuit, so we'll start there. After that, it is a whistlestop tour of the top stories of the week. Buckle up:â¦
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A copy of the beta version of Mac OS X 10.5 released to developers at WWDC last week has shown up on a pirated software site.
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The United Kingdom's advertising watchdog group, the Advertising Standards Association, has found that complaints lodged against a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) magazine ad that stated that Linux was more expensive than Windows were valid.
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Last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs called for an end to anti-piracy software on digital music as a way to let customers listen to their downloads on any device. The record labels responded with a mixture of scorn and indifference to the idea, which would disrupt their security measures.
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Apple's economic gains signal Rule Breaker potential.
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Service and support are still problematic, leading one Apple watcher to posit that the company's motto might be: "We're not going after the enterprise. The enterprise is coming after us."
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Code that takes advantage of a Safari flaw could leave an iPhone open to attack.
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PETALING JAYA: Sophos Plc is urging Mac OS X administrators to arm themselves against an &quot;anti-security&quot; worm known as &quot;Renepo.
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The Motley Fool - Shortly after we came back from our big vacation overseas in May, my Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) PowerBook was hit with a computer virus. I can't tell you which one, but it was enough to cripple my Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) Office for the Mac software. Symantec's (Nasdaq: SYMC - News) Norton Anti-Virus found the bug, and then eradicated it by exterminating my entire in-box. (Thanks, guys.)
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(InfoWorld) - An anonymous security researcher claimed this weekend to have created a worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system which Apple missed in a May round of patches. A poster on theÂ Information Security Sell OutÂ blogÂ said Sunday that he or she had written a proof-of-concept worm "in a few hours" that exploits a variation of a vulnerability patched in May by Apple. According to the researcher (actually, in one posting, "writers" is used so there may be more than one contributing), he or she exploited a still-unpatched bug in mDSNResponder, a component of Apple's Bonjour automatic network configuring service, in the worm's code. "This vulnerability, as with the ones fixed, gives remote root access," the researcher said. Apple'sÂ May security update,Â 2007-005, included a fix for the mDSN bug. Info Sec's blogger(s) said the worm was also "very 'customer' specific" and crafted for cash. "[It] could easily be changed to be more malicious," said the researcher. The same blogger made aÂ minor stirÂ in April when, after a $10,000 security conference contest concluded, he or she claimed to have grabbed the exploit from the conference wireless network and reverse-engineered the vulnerability. Conference organizers, however, denied that the wireless network had been cracked. When asked to back up his or her claims, the Info Sec blogger only replied: "There is no real benefit to me in doing so. I am not one who cares if people believe my claims or not." In the same comment thread, the Info Sec blogger also promised to post the captured packets and other information "Once this bug is patched by Apple and I am satisfied that I would not be adding additional risk." Apple patched theÂ QuickTime vulnerabilityÂ May 1. The Info Sec blogger has not yet, however, posted the nicked network traffic. Attempts to reach the Info Sec blogger via e-mail were unsuccessful.
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Security researcher issues a warning that a rogue software application targeting the Mac has surfaced.
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A media advocacy group on Wednesday urged Apple Computer Inc. to intervene in a dispute over alleged labor abuses by an iPod manufacturer in China.