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Submission + - Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Six university researchers have revealed dangerous zero-day flaws in Apple's iOS and OS X, claiming it is possible to crack Apple's keychain, break app sandboxes and bypass its App Store security checks so that attackers can steal passwords from any installed app including the native email client without being detected.

The team was able to upload malware to the Apple app store, passing the vetting process without triggering alerts that could raid the keychain to steal passwords for services including iCloud and the Mail app, and all those store within Google Chrome.

Lead researcher Luyi Xing says he and his team complied with Apple's request to withhold publication of the research for six months, but had not heard back as of the time of writing. [Paper] [video demos]

Submission + - USCRN shows U.S. temperatures have declined for 10 years (dailycaller.com)

Submitted by davidph
davidph writes: Recent research published by NOAA's National Climate Data Center purports to show that world temperatures have continued to rise over the last two decades, at least if you accept their data data manipulation. But not all climate scientists approve of the adjustments to the raw data. For instance, Georgia Tech climate scientist Judith Curry says the National Climate Data Center paper is "politically useful for the Obama administration" but not a "useful contribution to our scientific understanding."

Now we have ten years of data from the U.S. Surface Climate Observing Reference Network, state-of-the-art weather stations "designed with climate science in mind." The high quality data from the USCRN show rather that instead of rising temperatures have actually declined slightly in the last ten years.

Comment Re: Store the hardware (Score 1) 257

Only thing that's really worrying here is the fact that hard disks have a bad tendency to behave bad when they get older - lubrication issues. And I'm not sure that SSDs fares a lot better.

Another issue that worries me is the fact that modern computers are soldered with lead-free tin combined with smaller solder joints than the computers made 25 years ago. A ticking bomb.

Comment Re:Classic style (Score 1) 9

by Z00L00K (#49914061) Attached to: A development environment still usable in 25 years time?

Today it's quite popular to run some kind of virtualization or emulation of older platforms, so it might be available even in the future, but don't rely on it entirely.

If you want to keep up the support for decades you need to catch up with the development environment at every upgrade and do tests. That's the problem with computer platforms - they evolve and if you don't catch up at reasonable intervals you can end up in a support nightmare.

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