Year: 2007

WeBot adds Mac support to media access service

WeBot’s recently-launched service lets users listen to their music and check out their photos from any computer, no matter where those files are located. Now, users can also get to their media regardless of what kinds of computer those are, too, reports the company. “We’re proud to make WeBot’s service available to the entire online community,” said David Gottesman, WeBot’s CEO.

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Intego Fights OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse

INTEGO SECURITY ALERT – October 31, 2007
OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to
Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers

Exploit: OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse

Discovered: October 30, 2007

Risk: Critical

Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography
web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free
pornographic videos on Macs. A great deal of spam has been posted to many
Mac forums, in an attempt to lead users to these sites.

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ShredIt X v5.8: Mireth Technology Adds Leopard Support

Vancouver, Canada, October 31, 2007 — Mireth Technology Corp. has released
version 5.8 of ShredIt X, its simple to use file shredder and hard drive
cleaner software for Mac OS X. Version 5.8 adds support for Leopard as well
as enhancements to the user interface.

ShredIt is the easy-to-use file shredder for Mac OS X that erases data so
it can’t be recovered. It can be used to erase files, folders, disk free
space, previously deleted files, hard drives, external drives, network
drives and CD-RWs.

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WibuKey CodeMeter: Perfection in Software Protection

Valuable tips for the protection of digital rights

During CeBIT Asia 2007 our workshop, “Protection Against Piracy”, had more
participants than last year

Karlsruhe – Interest in the topics of IT security and intellectual property
protection has clearly increased, as evidenced by the experience of
Wibu-Systems AG, a leading German manufacturer of hardware based protection
solutions for software, documents, access control and media. For the second
year in a row, Wibu-Systems organized a workshop during CeBIT Asia with
support from the trade fair producer.

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Deals: Postino 45% off today only

Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers Postino 1.6.4 for US$9.95 (45% off, retail $18). Postino is an RSS reader with audio and video podcast support that makes it easy to read and organize articles, audio and video programs and podcasts. You don’t need to visit your favorites sites hundreds of times a day anymore. Postino will get you the new articles automatically. Postino 1.6.4 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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