The moment we've all been waiting for has arrived: Mac OS X Lion has now reached Golden Master and is now available to all registered Apple Developers. If everything goes as expected, this Golden Master release will be available to all users through the App Store very soon.
According to YGN Ethical Hacker Group, a Myanmar-based white hat group, Apple's developer site contains a vulnerability that could open the door for phishing attacks, allowing personal information to be stolen.
If a new report from AppleInsider is to be believed, Apple is done planning the next-generation MacBook Air and is sitting on it until Lion, the next version of Mac OS X, is released. If you're planning to get this laptop, you should put it off for one more month.
Apple's iOS 5 might have stolen the show at the company's WWDC event in San Francisco last week, but the next version of Mac OS X - Lion - also saw a new beta release. According to reports, the latest seed features a new 'Reboot to Safari' feature, akin to Google's Chrome OS laptops.
A new version of MacDefender has been found, hours after a Mac OS X security update that would supposedly fix the problem was issued. Let the cat and mouse fight begin!
MacDefender is a Mac OS X malware threat that's spread considerably over the last few weeks, and has now been patched with a security update.
Last week, the Mac community was dead scared when the first widespread Mac OS X malware threat, Mac Defender, sometimes also under other names such as Mac Protector or Mac Security, made its way onto the internet. The malware is distributed through ill-designed webpages that claim that the user's Mac has been infected.
In an Apple support document the company says it intends to release a security update to address the potential threat from malware claiming to offer a security application for download.
Hands up if you've ever restored your iDevice only to realize you hadn't saved your photos somewhere beforehand? Come on, hands all the way up. That means you at the back!
Apple will release its upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with the Mac App Store being the primary distribution channel, reports AppleInsider.
