Mac OS Ken: 10.28.2010

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2010

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

SecureMac Spots Critical Mac OS X Trojan Horse in the Wild / Intego Says Risk Around New OSX Trojan is Low Rather Than Critical / Apple to Fix Locked iPhone Security Flaw with November iOS Update / Spotify Says It Is Not for Sale / Entry-Level MacBook Air Shipping Time Slips a Couple of Days / Apple Selling Unlocked and Contract-Free iPhones in Germany / Rumor Has Apple Working on Embedded Multi-Carrier SIM-Cards for iPhones / Far East Report Says Both Foxconn and Pegatron Set to Build CDMA iPhone 4 Soon / SAI Hears Talk of a Secret Special Developer Event in CA Next Week / Apple Reportedly Locking Down iTunes Connect for Third Week of November / Acer Expected to Unveil Android-Tablets in NYC on 23 November / Verizon and Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile and Best Buy All Set to Sell Samsung Galaxy Tab / Strategy Analytics Says Carrier Subsidies Could Give Significant Boost to Tablet Sales / ABC News App Adds Features with 2010 US Election Theme

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0:00.0	This is MacO West Kingdom.
0:16.0	Security to start the day. Spotify squelches the Apple rumor, and here come the Verizon iPhone.
0:21.0	Rumors, again. It's Thursday October 28th, 2010. I'm Ken Ray and this is
0:28.8	news from Maco-S-KAN brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers to MacoS
0:37.2	Ken Day 6.
0:39.0	More information is available at MacoS can.com. This show is also supported by the MacoS can Podcast
0:46.0	app for the iPhone and iPod touch available in the App Store now for $2.99
0:52.1	I like the guys at Secure Mac, but I don't like having to mention them. Nick, Nicholas, other
0:59.7	guys whose names I forget, they're all cool. But if we're talking about them on the show,
1:04.4	they're probably bad things afoot. Yeah, there's a bad thing afoot.
1:08.8	Secure Mac put out word yesterday of the Bunana Trojan horse a bit of malware affecting the
1:14.3	Mac OS right up to the most recent build of snow leopard. Trojan dot OSX dot
1:19.5	Boonana dot A has a security risk ranking of critical according to secure Mac.
1:25.2	Secure Mac says Bunana is spreading through social networking sites including
1:29.0	Facebook disguised as a video.
1:31.9	The Trojan is currently appearing as a link in messages on social networking sites with the subject
1:36.5	Is this you and this video?
1:39.0	Have you ever noticed how it's not usually you in those videos usually when a user clicks the
1:46.0	infected link the Trojan initially runs as a Java applet which downloads other
1:50.4	files to the computer including an installer which launches automatically.
1:55.2	That installer modifies system files to bypass the need for passwords, allowing outside access
1:59.9	to all files on the system.
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