Apple just shipped OS X 10.10 Yosemite – including a fix for the POODLE vulnerability. Mavericks and Mountain Lion also got updates to kill the POODLE. As for Lion, now three releases off the pace…bad news.
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U2’s Bono says sorry for foisting album on everybody’s iTunes
In a Facebook interview, a U2 fan – or, well, maybe just somebody who took advantage of the chance to tell off the band – asked the band to please never release an automatically downloaded album again, given that “It’s really rude.”
Reminder: iCloud’s going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps
Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don’t support Apple’s new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You’ll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data. 
US Attorney General urges tech companies to leave back doors open on gadgets for police
Don’t lock police out of popular consumer gadgets, lest law enforcement’s efforts to nab kidnappers or child predators be stymied, the US AG said, becoming the latest of a string of government officials to speak out since Google and Apple announced they were changing encryption on their mobile operating systems.
George Clooney issues burner phones to stop guests from leaking wedding photos
Mr Oceans Eleven wasn’t about to let leaked photos ruin his Big Day so he handed out coded burner phones to all his guests.
Apple patches OS X against Shellshock
If you’re a Mac user, you may have felt wrongfully left out of all the Shellshock kerfuffle over the past few days. Not any more!
More celeb nude photos leaked: Cara Delevingne, Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lawrence (again)
Jennifer Lawrence again finds herself the subject of tawdry picture posters in what has been dubbed ‘The Fappening 3’ by Redditers and 4chan community members.
Are you tired of weak or fake zero-day exploits? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch our latest 60 Second Security video! An entertaining but insightful look at the week’s security woes – in just one minute…
SSCC 166 – A sleeping bag and a camping stove to queue for an iPhone? [PODCAST]
For your listening pleasure! Here’s the latest episode in our weekly podcast series…
Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 update, tells users to roll back to iOS 8
Apple’s telling users to ditch the update after it knocked out cellular service and disabled Touch ID for iPhones, on top of a list of other glitches – stalling, crashing and more. 