apple-securityContrary to the usual beliefs that my Mac is fully secure, we have reported again and again that it isn't exactly the same unless you are one of those self -assured types with eyes closed. The reason Mac community hasn't been affected is because of the strange aloofness of Black Hat groupies to exploit its vulnerabilities rather than pampering it. Anyway, just to prove my point that Apple never was too concerned about patching the security loopholes, they have at last fixed a potentially very harmful Java hole after almost 11 months of being addressed by Sun Microsystems. Sun warned the world of flaws in its Java virtual machine that make it easy for attackers to execute malware on users' Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes and they had fixed it for Windows and Linux at least 6 months before. So, Apple did it after the tech world knew, got worried, fixed and forgot about it. Full article (370 words) »