News: Apple fixes bugs, interview with Walter Isaacson, Apple's in-store software, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 28 November 2011
Posted in Apple

A somewhat concerning story from Krebson Security is that Apple took over three years to fix a hole in their software. The hole, first exploited by the FinFisher trojan, was in relation to a vulnerability which allowed malicious software to alert the user of an update to legitimate software which didn't protect its updates via signing, therefore allowing the malicious software to download and install compromised copies of the most popular software available, even software like iTunes on Windows.

Over at the New York Times, Nick Bilton has interviewed Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs biography you might have heard of lately. Isaacson is also the author of an Albert Einstein biography, and while he thinks that Einstein was in a different orbit to Jobs, he says that Jobs was probably more similar to Pablo Picasso or Walt Disney.

When you visit an Apple store, you can press buttons on iPads which signal staff that you need assistance. A message pops up on screen to let you know a representative is on the way, and a few minutes later, you're talking with your very own Apple rep. Brian Chen has more on the technology and software behind these Apple store encounters.

Something a little unusual, but still Mac-related: with the release of the Doom3 source code, there's now instructions to compile and run it on Mac OS X using Xcode 4.

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