A variant of Koobface attacks Mac OS X
Discovered in 2008, the worm Koobface was a malware that only affected Windows systems. It said "social" because it was spreading through the community sites like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.
Recently, a variant of this threat can be achieved with machines running Mac OS X (including his latest release, Snow Leopard) was discovered. This version is more "CrossPlatform" since it could address both Mac OS X, Windows and even Linux.
FaceTime for Mac opens the door to a big security flaw in the Apple ID
At the same time as the new MacBook Air and Mac OS "Lion", Steve Jobs introduced FaceTime for Macintosh.
Unfortunately, it seems that the software is equipped with a security rather consistent.
Indeed, it seems that once identified with his Apple ID with the application, a user can change the password directly, without having to enter first the old password.
Suddenly, any person sitting behind the computer can compromise the account associated with an open session. This is for the entire Apple ID. Thus, if the rightful owner of the account as stolen at the same time is connected to iTunes, then it will deny access and the new password will be requested.
The attacker, he may at leisure offer music of your choice on your money.
In short, a flaw which is not critical but may, under certain conditions, cause many problems.
New font for developers
The font of the code editor supports the developer during all working days, often long and tedious.
So, the choice of typeface is capital and change its preferred font may be an "existential" decision.
But now Mark Simonson, a designer known and recognized is to develop a new police force dedicated to software and free offers and free licenses for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
This printer meets the sweet name of "Anonymous Pro. It is obviously minivan and the characters that are similar (O, 0, Ø, I, l, 1) express in many forms to avoid confusion.
HipHop for PHP – what now ?
6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.
The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.
Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.
Source : Facebook's Engineering Note
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