Celebrating 20 years of Nonsense, Powered by Cats' Natural Intelligence.
File this one on the “Stupidity Knows No Bound” file.
Cult of Mac (cached version, no direct link.)
7 things Steve Jobs would have hated about Apple today
Luke Dormehl (5:00 am PDT, Jan 7th)
Unless Cult of Mac’s Luke Dormehl performed a seance and spoke to the ghost of Steve Jobs, who passed away on October 5, 2011, only then this post would make any sense whatsoever.
No surprise from a “publication” that hires Mike Elgan.
Random pick for iOS App: Waterlogue ($2.99)
Waterlogue transforms your photos into luminous watercolors.
I’m having a lot of fun using Waterlogue.
It is only the second day of 2015 and I am running out of “data” on my T-Mobile plan. Luckily I’m only a few days away from the new cycle of my plan. I was burning through 1GB of data in one hour, tethering my MacBook to my iPhone.
Happy New Year!
According to a few pundits, 2015 is a disappointment already for it is only a slight improvement over 2014.
/s
A few things that are coming this year:
Not to mention this year would be the year of the … (wait for it in a few weeks)
Apple issues OS X NTP Security Update for Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite.
OS X NTP Security Update
ntpdAvailable for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.1
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Several issues existed in ntpd that would have allowed an attacker to trigger buffer overflows. These issues were addressed through improved error checking.
To verify the ntpd version, type the following command in Terminal: what /usr/sbin/ntpd. This update includes the following versions:
Mountain Lion: ntp-77.1.1
Mavericks: ntp-88.1.1
Yosemite: ntp-92.5.1CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9295 : Stephen Roettger of the Google Security Team
From ICS-CERT:
Google Security Team researchers Neel Mehta and Stephen Roettger have coordinated multiple vulnerabilities with CERT/CC concerning the Network Time Protocol (NTP). As NTP is widely used within operational Industrial Control Systems deployments, NCCIC/ICS-CERT is providing this information for US Critical Infrastructure asset owners and operators for awareness and to identify mitigations for affected devices. ICS-CERT may release updates as additional information becomes available.
These vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely. Exploits that target these vulnerabilities are publicly available.
Products using NTP service prior to NTP-4.2.8 are affected. No specific vendor is specified because this is an open source protocol.
Android 5.0.1 “occam” arrives for Nexus 4.
Side note: Android 5.0.2 factory image “nakasi” is now available for 2012 Wi-Fi Nexus 7.
WordPress 4.1, named “Dinah” is now available. New theme, Twenty-Fifteen is included in this release.