First of all, Microsoft claims a variety of benchmark tests have shown it to be highly reliable and virtually crash-proof, thanks to memory protection features. Although most of the bugs and defects are minor, a patch was issued on 28 January for...
Throwing more processing power and memory at a phone destroys the battery and takes up space. Some resource efficiency and robustness was sacrificed but as memory became cheaper and microprocessors faster and cheaper, this became increasingly...
This can cause a process to crash, or allow malicious code to run. However, that's more likely to cause the PC to crash, rather than allow a complete compromise, Cooper said. The feature, which is called Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR...
A handful of flaws related to file sharing, handled by the Mac OS X AFP server, could expose user data or let a malicious user gain elevated privileges a system running Mac OS X or cause a crash, Apple said.
The standard $2,499 configuration includes 1GB of memory, an Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics card, a 250GB hard drive and a SuperDrive that can burn CDs and DVDs. A sample configuration with two 2GHz Xeons, 1GB of memory and a single 80GB Serial...
Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year, but the malware threat to Mac customers is insignificant compared to users of Microsoft Windows. The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X...