Apple computers have long been prized for being relatively virus-free. But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware. The threat was highlighted earlier this week after a handful of the company’s iPods were shipped with [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but Internet Explorer 7 is here at last. If you’re dying to get your hands on the new browser, you can download it right now. But otherwise, there’s really no need — IE7 will soon come knocking on your door. In November, Microsoft plans to make IE7 an Automatic [...]
The company’s new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn’t have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said Friday. Unlike Google’s main Web search engine, Google [...]