Mac OS X Vulnerabilities

Mac OS X is losing its reputation for being a safe and carefree place with reports of a virus and vulnerabilities making the news these days (which seems to be the iChat trojan from February that really has nothing to do with a vulnerability but just careless / clueless users). But Tom Ferris has reported a number of actual vulnerabilities to Apple. What I found interesting was his assessment that Apple is in the same situation Microsoft was in a few years ago: increasing security problems but not really knowing how to deal with security issues (source: AP via Wired and CNN).

Amazon Cuddles Up to Microsoft

Without much fanfare, Amazon has switched from Google to Microsoft for search results for A9 and Alexa (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/amazon-drops-google-from-a9-and-alexa.html).

Poor RIM

Looks like Research in Motion (the Blackberry folks) are in for a new round of patent lawsuits. And the plaintiff-to-be has already won a patent infringement case.

Firefox Patch / New Feature Dropped

An update for Firefox to fix a known security issue is coming this week. And a completely rewritten bookmarking feature called Places is being dropped from Firefox 2.0, which is supposed to come out this year. Apparently it just was not going to well-baked enough to include in 2.0. Presumably we'll see it eventually. What I've heard is that without Places the new release should just be Firefox 1.6 since the other changes are just incremental. (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125598,00.asp)

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