Video: See the Apple keyboard keylogger hack in action

The world is not coming to end, at least not any faster than it was last month. Thereupon, a guy going by the handle K. Chen demonstrated a hack at last week’s Black Hat conference in Lost Wages that can be used to infect the firmware of an Apple keyboard and log all of the [...]

Best Mac prices: Whoa, get the $699 MacBook!

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Apple’s MacBook is beautiful, durable and, now, more affordable cheaper than ever before. Yup, this is a previous generation model, but it’s got those most important of all Apple product features—same specs, same warranty, same free printer and same free shipping.
• MacBook 2.1GHz, [...]

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Free TV—Defying Gravity
The mission is a go. In the near future, a coed international crew of eight astronauts boards the spaceship Antares for a six-year interplanetary mission. With only limited help from Mission Control, it soon becomes apparent that these scientists and the crew aren’t just in deep space—they’re in even deeper than they could [...]

Firefox 3.5.2 patches Chrome privilege escalation issue

Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 3.5.2, a workaday security and feature fix dot-update. According to the open source group’s security advisories and release notes, here’s a quick sample of what’s been patched in this version of the world’s second most popular browser:
• Chrome privilege escalation due to incorrectly cached wrapper
• Crashes with evidence [...]