News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
On July 31, 2008, Apple released an overdue patch for a major vulnerability in the way Mac OS X Server handles turning the names in web sites and e-mail addresses into the numeric addresses used for connections. The vulnerability is a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol and affected all but a handful of DNS servers built into operating systems and released as stand-alone server software packages.
Glenn Fleishman and Rich Mogull | Aug 5, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
