Mac OS Ken: 04.23.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2012

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Web and Symantec Peg Current Flashback Infection at 650,000 Macs Six U.S. Regional Carriers Start iPhone 4/4S Sales and Service Sterne Agee Analyst Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Expectations for Apple’s 2Q FY2012 IHS iSuppli: Apple to Consume One-Quarter of 2012’s NAND Flash Production Apple Launches Pages for iPhone and iPad in Business Check out the iPhone in Business Page at Check out the iPad in Business Page at EU Competition Commissioner Says Apple Has Made Settlement Offer in eBook Price Fixing Case Proview Attorney Says Settlement Talks Underway with Apple Over Ownership of Term “iPad” in China Flatworld Interactives Sues Apple Over Alleged Patent Infringement Regarding Touchscreen Gestures Apple Adding 500 Positions at European Headquarters Bloomberg/Businessweek Wins D&AD “Yellow Pencil” for Steve Jobs Commemorative Issue

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0:00.0	This is MacOS.C.S.C.S.C.S.C.S. Can.
0:07.0	Flashback looks just as big as ever, more iPhones and more places in the States, and
0:16.7	anticipating I-thing growth.
0:19.4	It's Monday, April 23rd, 2012.
0:22.2	I'm Kanray, and this is news from Maco S Ken brought to you by yours truly and
0:28.9	supported by listeners like you subscribers to Mac Mac OS can Day 6.
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0:39.0	This show is also supported by the MacOS can podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, available in the App Store
0:46.9	now for $2.99.
0:51.0	The number of Macs infected by the flashback malware is shrinking unless you ask the security
0:55.9	firm that publicized it in the first place and one of the other firms that said the number
0:59.6	was shrinking.
1:00.6	I told you last week of reports from one firm that had the number down to 140,000 infected
1:05.7	machines last Tuesday and another that had it down to 30,000 last Thursday.
1:11.2	Now Macworld UK has Dr. Webb, the Russian firm that found the flashback Trojan
1:16.0	or at least publicized it saying that the number of machines affected was, as of last Friday,
1:21.7	about 650,000.
1:24.4	Surprisingly, the Dr. Webb numbers were confirmed
1:26.7	by Symantec's Security Response Center.
1:30.0	I say surprisingly, because it was Symantec
1:32.1	that had said early last week that the number was down to about 140,000.
1:36.8	Symantec's Liam O'merchu says, we've been talking with Dr. Webb about the discrepancies
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