Nick Wingfield with The Wall Street Journal gets confirmation that a plan is in place for Apple to remotely kill certain iPhone / iPod touch applications if they are found to be malicious. Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program — one [...]

Security Update 2008-005 fixes the BIND DNS cache poisoning vulnerability by updating BIND to 9.4.2-P1(Leopard) and 9.3.5-P1(Tiger). Also of note, this update addresses the OSA privilege escalation issue by not loading scripting addition plugins into applications running with system privileges. Other items affected by this update include CarbonCore, CoreGraphics, Data Detectors Engine, Disk Utility, OpenLDAP, [...]

If you were to ask people if they felt vulnerable to phishing scams, they would most likely tell you, “No.” However, if phishing emails were not profitable to someone, our inboxes would not be filled with them. I get a lot of phishing emails, and for the most part they are for companies and services that [...]

**If you are looking for the actual iPhone v2 (iPhone 3G), check out the WWDC08 coverage.** I’m making available some Leopard screenshots, spy photos of the second revision of the iPhone, and the proposed pricing schedule for new models. . Download here. . .