security enhancements

MacUpdate Desktop 4.2.4 Released

MacUpdate Desktop is an application that helps you highlight outdated Apple and most 3rd party applications and keep up-to-date with their latest version releases. Create a Watch List of the applications you want to monitor, and MacUpdate Desktop will highlight ones that are outdated for you. Then simply double-click them to download the latest version to your Macintosh.
Version 4.2.4 adds the following:

  • Now a Universal Binary; compatible with Intel Macintoshes.

  • Adds a manual “Search for matches…” item in the drop down menu. This allows you to manually find and match titles that Desktop doesn’t auto-match.
  • Adds support for searching PPC and Universal Binary applications, as well as adding the UB compatible icon as a column.
  • Adds support for Dashboard widgets. You can now add them to your Watch List and monitor which ones are outdated.
  • Adds SSL security enhancements to Desktop during the transfer of information.
  • Fixed a number of bugs in the processing of information.
  • Tweaked user interface, like default columns for new users.

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Firefox 1.5 released

The folks at Mozilla have posted a major update to Firefox. Some of the new features include automated updating, faster browser navigation, drag and drop tab reordering, improved popup blocking, easy private data removal, many security enhancements and much, much more.

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Apple issues a Security Update 2005-002 and plugs a few Java holes

Security Update 2005-002 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:

  • Java Web Start

  • JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
  • JavaScriptCore
  • Core Java classes

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