2006 March

Critical: Extremely critical
Impact: Security Bypass, System access
Where: From remote
Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes multiple vulnerabilities.
1) Under certain circumstances, it is possible for JavaScript to bypass the same-origin policy via specially crafted archives.
2) A boundary error in Mail can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially [...]

In search for a good screen capture tool for my MacBook Pro (SnapNDrag is the one I went with,) I found a great site called Pure Mac. Since it had done such a great job helping me find a screen capture utility, I figured I’d browse. Guess what else I found? Mmm-hmm, a [...]

With every new Intel Mac, lucky users now get the infamous Apple remote. Infamous because it works with the new FrontRow software that comes with the Mac. But GNUHAUS has found more uses for your Apple remote that will broaden the horizons of it’s use.
Much like the Griffin Technology’s AirClick remote, [...]

With less then a month of shipping the first Intel Mac that is a notebook, I by the grace of God got mine only two weeks after Apple started sending them out to Mac-heads everywhere. Sparring you the details on how I got it, I won’t skimp on what I’ve learned in my first [...]

One of my our favorite OS X utilities here at SvenOnTech is MenuMeters by Raging Menace. A freeware system tool that sits in your menu bar, MenuMeters helps you identify how much CPU use is occurring, what is your used and available amounts of memory are, as well as other pieces of system information [...]

Call them crazy or brilliant, but either way, a bunch of IT students at Carrol College have successfully created possibly the first 13 floppy drive striped RAID drive.
They first tried using a Windows XP machine, but that old technology must have been just too advanced for Microsoft’s easy operating system to handle so the IT [...]

No Windows for you! That’s what the Vista Nazi will be saying to all you iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini users with those Intel chips in them. Yes, it seems that the development manager at Microsoft, Andrew Ritz, spit the bad news out at the Intel Developer Forum this week at Moscone [...]

Like most Mac freaks will know by now, there is a story going around that a Mac mini was hacked within 30 minutes of its connection to the Internet. This was some kind of strange contest that was going around. The guy that hacked this box said that: Mac OS X was “easy pickings” due [...]

Apple released another security update and yesterday I got an email from CERT Advisories regarding this. Most of the time Apple does not release a lot of information about its security updates. CERT, on the other hand, gives you all the information you might want to know. So I thought I’d share.

Apple announced nearly two weeks ago that the MacBook Pros were shipping “this week”. We’ve all seen the un-boxing ceremonies here and there but the real question is, “Where are the MacBook Pros?”
SvenOnTech called nearly every Apple Store in the Bay Area from San Jose to San Francisco to the East Bay [...]