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After banning the word "jailbreak" from its app store and music library, Apple today reversed course and again permits the term - slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content -- to appear on iTunes and its App Store.

On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album "Jailbreak" as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as "J******k" in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak. Read more »

Apple continued its recent parade of patches by releasing an update for Quicktime yesterday, fixing 17 different security vulnerabilities, several which could lead to remote code execution.

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Apple finally pushed out a patch yesterday for users of its older operating system, 10.5 Leopard, protecting them from the much-discussed Flashback Trojan. Read more »

Apple released security updates yesterday that fix various vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and the Safari browser. Read more »

Apple has patched several serious security bugs in iOS with the release of version 5.1.1 of the mobile operating system. The most serious of the security vulnerabilities could be used for remote code execution. Read more »

Search giant Google is in negotiations with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the size of a fine it will pay. This, after the company was found in breach of privacy controls in Apple’s Safari browser earlier this year. Read more »

There's a serious weakness in certain versions of Apple OS X that causes the operating system to store users' login credentials for the FileVault encrypted storage in plaintext. The bug, which is found in older versions of FileVault present on OS X Lion 10.7.3 systems, enables anyone with admin access to the machine to get the login password for the FileVault system. The flaw also can be exploited when a machine is in FireWire disk mode and accessible to another computer. Read more »

Just fewer than 10 percent of websites serve some sort of malicious purpose, with an additional nine percent of sites being characterized as “suspicious” by Zscaler in a new research report. Read more »

Many Mac users recently have found themselves stumbling out of the darkness, shielding their eyes from the spotlight that attackers and malware writers are now shining on them. Malware having been a rarity on OS X, it's taking some time to adjust, but while that's happening the attackers are busy honing their game. Microsoft researchers have analyzed a new piece of malware that's targeting  Macs running Snow Leopard and found that the malware uses a multi-stage attack that's similar to typical Windows malware infection routines. Read more »

Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the much-discussed Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware’s creators, according to new research from Symantec. Read more »