News Archive for 01/10/20

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Tech: Anti-Piracy cracked, iSCSI, Excite@Home

10/20, 2:50pm

Tech: Anti-Piracy cracked, iSCSI, Excite@Home

Afternoon tech news: A hacker has begun anonymously distributing a crack for Microsoft's anti-piracy technology which is intended to limit audio/video playback; iSCSI is the name of a new storage standard being backed by IBM and Cisco; Bondholders of the now defunct Excite@Home are opposing the sale of broadband assets to AT&T for $307 million.

New FireWire SDK for OS X 10.1 chips

10/20, 1:50pm

New FireWire SDK for OS X 10.1 chips

Apple has posted new FireWire SDK for Mac OS X, updated for 10.1 with latest sources and more sample code. This SDK includes a test package of updates for certain bugs in 10.1: "We may release this update to customers very soon, so we would welcome any feedback about new problems caused by this update (if any)."

OS X: IE security patch, root-access bug fix

10/20, 1:35pm

OS X: IE security patch, root-access bug fix

osx.macnn.com has news of two new security updates by Apple which address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and fix the root-access security exploit detailed here a few days ago. It also reports on a new FireWire SDK for OS X 10.1 and Oxford 911 chipsets. [updated]

Macromedia sues Adobe over Photoshop

10/20, 1:35pm

Macromedia sues Adobe over Photoshop

Macromedia is claiming it owns the patent to Adobe Photoshop, according to a suit filed in federal court Friday, alleging that the technology behind Photoshop and GoLive programs was patented by Macromedia in 1998.

Apple releases two security updates for OS X

10/20, 1:35pm

Apple releases two security updates for OS X

Finlay Dobbie notes that Apple has released 2 security updates for OS X, one for IE, and the other one seemingly to tackle the major security hole that enabled any user to gain root access via the GUI (reported a few days ago). IUE 5.1 Security Update installs IE 5.1.3 and "prevents automatic execution of downloaded files." Apple's Internet Security 10-19 update provides "increased security for application access privileges."