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Mitigating a Missing Mobile Safari Security Feature

Written on January 02, 2009 by Bob Rudis and 4 people have commented

In the event you were too distracted by the festivities associated with the ringing in of the new year and missed the news: the internets are broken (again).
To be more specific, what has actually happened is a portion of the trust system that is the foundation of secure transactions on public IP networks has been [...]

Shields Up! Twelve Security Holes Fixed by New iPhone/iPod touch Firmware

Written on November 24, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 5 people have commented

Weldon did a phenomenal job covering the visible and functional changes in the iPhone/iPod touch 2.2 firmware release. If you are holding off on the update, or just haven’t gotten to it yet, you may want to pencil in some time with iTunes as there are a twelve security fixes in this firmware release, each [...]

iPhone 1.1.3 Update First Impressions

Written on January 16, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

Apple posted the 1.1.3 iPhone update shortly after the keynote (as promised) and I managed to slowly grab it via AT&T’s 3G ExpressCard (~161MB…full firmware load). The upgrade behaves like a standard iPhone firmware update and upon restart, you are greeted with a dialog explaining how to move icons around.
NOTE: This is the first time [...]