Israeli security setup Yoggie Security organizations has shaped yet another variant of its ever evolving notebook caretaker firewall, this time in a practical Express-Card form. The Gatekeeper Card Pro wraps up the equivalent 13 security utilities found in the supplementary variants of the tiny hardware tool into card merchandise that can be seated inside a notebook. As per the sources from the company, some buyers were worried that the USB variants would be misplaced by customers, creating a positive feature annoyance for IT staff. Perhaps the principal magnetism of the new invention for IT teams will be that it turns the proposal into one over which they have an elevated degree of power.

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AppSnapp opens both the iPhone and iPod touch, then installs another program, Installer.app, which in turn can install unauthorized, non-Apple programs.

Hackers have released a tool that “jailbreaks” up-to-date iPhones and iPod touches, but unlike previous such software, doesn’t require a Mac or PC as a middleman.

As an added bonus, the software, dubbed AppSnapp 1.1.1, patches a vulnerability in the stripped-down Mac OS X both devices use that had been exploited previously to unlock iPhones.

Created by a group of nine developers, among them HD Moore of Metasploit fame, AppSnapp opens both the iPhone and iPod touch, then installs another program, Installer.app, which in turn can install unauthorized, non-Apple programs. The iPhone and iPod touch must be running the current firmware, version 1.1.1, the AppSnapp hackers said.

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Chicago (IL) – Mozilla has released a new patch for Firefox, which will update the browser to version 2.0.0.8 and install a handful of security fixes and brings support for Apple’s upcoming operating system MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard”.

The update, distributed since earlier today via the software’s auto-update feature, patches eight vulnerabilities. Two of them are rated as “critical” and could allow an attacker to run code or install software on a client PC.

 The new version brings two new localized versions of Firefox, Georgian and Romanian.

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