According to this article, cars are being equipped with all kinds of computer systems to allow: "Automobiles are getting smarter as carmakers put in computers that can help drivers parallel park and add Internet connectivity to post Facebook or Twitter updates"
I can see why a computer that parallel parks would be awesome -- I hate parallel parking, so I avoid it any way possible. But if I could just push a button and the car does it for me, it could open up a whole new world of parking options for me! I wonder if this would change my insurance rates? I would assume that the car would be less likely to hit another car while it was auto-parking.
But twitter and facebook posts? What is my car going to tweet -- it's location every time I stop? That would be nice for the creepy stalker types out there, but not so great for me.
Am I going to get a facebook message from the car telling me it wants premium gas instead of the regular that I fill up with most of the time? Will it start accepting friend requests from other cars?
To be fair, they might have meant that the cars would have a way for me to tweet or post, but in my coffee-less morning state, that's not how I read the quote. And even if it is a way for the driver/passengers to tweet... again, why? Isn't there enough other distractions on the road now (radio, eating, smart phones) without adding one more way to get into a wreck!!
The article then goes on to discuss the security implications of all these computers in cars. It seems, yet again, no one has learned from past mistakes and security is being added (if at all) as an afterthought.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Google fixes Android vulnerability
Google is rolling out a fix for a vulnerability in Android that could leak data from Google calendar and contacts. Android phone users were at risk when they are connected to unsecured wireless network. Android OS versions 2.3.3 and lower are affected by this.
The Google spokesperson quoted in this article says that the fix will be rolled out to all android phones over the next few days. Android phone users do not have to do anything - the fix is supposed to install silently to all versions of Android.
The good thing is that Google is rolling the fix out to all versions - so you will not have to wait months (or years) for your carrier to update your phone's OS version.
The Google spokesperson quoted in this article says that the fix will be rolled out to all android phones over the next few days. Android phone users do not have to do anything - the fix is supposed to install silently to all versions of Android.
The good thing is that Google is rolling the fix out to all versions - so you will not have to wait months (or years) for your carrier to update your phone's OS version.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Folding displays becoming a reality
Researchers at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology have built a prototype for a foldable display. They tested the prototype to see if folding/unfolding would cause a visible degradation in the fold point. In their tests, after 100,000 fold/unfolds there was a 6% degradation. If you check out the koala picture in this article, the only reason I could tell that it was a foldable display at all was the caption!
The one they built simply folded in half. Maybe future ones would have more foldability (is that really a word?) -- then I could take my 32'' monitor with me when I travel. Once you get to your destination you would need some kind of holder, or maybe it could just attach to a wall somehow. This would make work travel so much nicer! I would have a real display instead of working with the too-small laptop screen. Or think of connecting this to your smart phone while you are stuck waiting somewhere and watching a movie with a real screen! No more squinting to see what was happening.
The one they built simply folded in half. Maybe future ones would have more foldability (is that really a word?) -- then I could take my 32'' monitor with me when I travel. Once you get to your destination you would need some kind of holder, or maybe it could just attach to a wall somehow. This would make work travel so much nicer! I would have a real display instead of working with the too-small laptop screen. Or think of connecting this to your smart phone while you are stuck waiting somewhere and watching a movie with a real screen! No more squinting to see what was happening.
Friday, May 13, 2011
The cost of motherhood
Shine posted an article today discussing a study that tried to quantify the cost of motherhood... how much earning potential did women lose because they choose to have children.
Shockingly (at least to me) is that after 10 years there is a 24% gap between the high-skilled* women who had children and there counterparts... ouch!
It almost makes you think women would be better off not having children (other than the whole end-of-the-species thing).... but the study also found that high skilled women who have children later (after 30) also tend to earn more than high skilled childless women. For some reason, the high-skilled women who chose to have children make more money before having children than those women who don't have children. So wanting to be a mother appears to pay off -- right up until the point that women actually have the child!
Some other stats from the study:
- Low-skilled women don’t get very big raises, and having kids does little to change that
- For high-skilled women, kids spell the end of raises.
- Becoming a parent seems to have no effect on men’s wages
I couldn't find the research paper itself posted online, but if you wanted to read the whole thing, you can buy it here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16582
the study used the Armed Forces Qualification Test to determine high-skill vs low-skill.
Shockingly (at least to me) is that after 10 years there is a 24% gap between the high-skilled* women who had children and there counterparts... ouch!
It almost makes you think women would be better off not having children (other than the whole end-of-the-species thing).... but the study also found that high skilled women who have children later (after 30) also tend to earn more than high skilled childless women. For some reason, the high-skilled women who chose to have children make more money before having children than those women who don't have children. So wanting to be a mother appears to pay off -- right up until the point that women actually have the child!
Some other stats from the study:
- Low-skilled women don’t get very big raises, and having kids does little to change that
- For high-skilled women, kids spell the end of raises.
- Becoming a parent seems to have no effect on men’s wages
I couldn't find the research paper itself posted online, but if you wanted to read the whole thing, you can buy it here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16582
the study used the Armed Forces Qualification Test to determine high-skill vs low-skill.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Facebook password exposure - what's it really mean?
In case you haven't heard yet, Symantec found that Facebook applications could have been leaking 'user access tokens' (what lets an application access pictures, post messages, etc) to 3rd parties. Just to be clear, the applications do not have your password, nor did they leak passwords.
When you install an application, you have give that app permissions... when you do this, the application gets what Symantec has called a spare-key. This is the token that lets the app do things like post messages on your wall, send requests to friends - stuff like that. Some applications were written that told FB to send the token in the URL, and he application might also use the token in URLs sent to advertisers.
Facebook has since fixed the issue that let this happen, but they can't go out and find all the places the tokens might be stored or used.
what can you do? change you password! and of course, you all know to use a strong password.
This works a bit like re-keying a lock... the old spare-keys that we leaked out with URLs (and possibly stored in logs or by advertisers) will no longer work. The applications will still work - they will get a new spare key, but the issue that let them leak the info has been fixed.
if you want the full gory details, check out the Symantec post
When you install an application, you have give that app permissions... when you do this, the application gets what Symantec has called a spare-key. This is the token that lets the app do things like post messages on your wall, send requests to friends - stuff like that. Some applications were written that told FB to send the token in the URL, and he application might also use the token in URLs sent to advertisers.
Facebook has since fixed the issue that let this happen, but they can't go out and find all the places the tokens might be stored or used.
what can you do? change you password! and of course, you all know to use a strong password.
This works a bit like re-keying a lock... the old spare-keys that we leaked out with URLs (and possibly stored in logs or by advertisers) will no longer work. The applications will still work - they will get a new spare key, but the issue that let them leak the info has been fixed.
if you want the full gory details, check out the Symantec post
Friday, February 4, 2011
Sprint Airave
After I got that fancy new phone I have been playing with for almost 2 weeks now, the lack of cellular coverage in my house really started to get to me. I blame it on the radiant barrier that keeps the house energy efficient. basically, its like covering the house in tinfoil!
A friend was telling me that she had a Sprint TV app (when I was whining that I can't get the U-Verse app). But when I looked for it, couldn't find it. But - there's this Sprint concept of SprintIDs -- basically, its like having multiple identities on your phone with a set of bundled apps. The only way my phone can get the SprintTV app is by having the Sprint- SprintID. Unfortunately, you have to be on the cellular data network to get these things (won't work over the WiFi connection). Plus, once you get them some (i.e. Sprint TV) only work on the cell network as well.
What this means - I have to go outside to be able to use these nifty sprint apps. And right now, its below freezing in San Antonio - I don't want to sit outside just to load something on the phone. Add to that, sitting outside to talk on the phone is really not fun.
I had a cell booster for a while -- the problem with that was 1- 15 feet of vertical distance between the base station and the antenna (not so easy on a 1-story house without getting on the roof) and 2 - the cable to connect the outside antenna to the base station has to come into the house somehow and I just didn't want to drill the holes!
A friend told me that he had similar problems, called Sprint and they sent him this nifty device that would plug into the internet connection in the house and create a sort of personal cell tower inside. I called Sprint, and sure enough -- they sent one out! (Apparently you do have to talk to someone for this -- I tried the online chat thing and they said to call Account Service) It arrived today and I have now plugged it in and I'm waiting for the lights to stop flashing -- they say up to 2 hours for the device to identify all the stuff it needs and set itself up (?!?)
*update* after 30+ minutes, the GPS signal still wasn't working. You need the GPS to prove that you are not trying to use the Airave to scam cellular coverage in another country. The thing does come with a GPS antenna - so I've plugged that in and put the receiver end in the window of the office. Hopefully that will work -- I really don't want to deal with mounting an antenna outside again :)
*update2* so it really did take 2 hours -- but now my phone shows data connection and all bars! woo hoo! now I can answer the phone inside the house and expect to keep the call more than 5 minutes!
A friend was telling me that she had a Sprint TV app (when I was whining that I can't get the U-Verse app). But when I looked for it, couldn't find it. But - there's this Sprint concept of SprintIDs -- basically, its like having multiple identities on your phone with a set of bundled apps. The only way my phone can get the SprintTV app is by having the Sprint- SprintID. Unfortunately, you have to be on the cellular data network to get these things (won't work over the WiFi connection). Plus, once you get them some (i.e. Sprint TV) only work on the cell network as well.
What this means - I have to go outside to be able to use these nifty sprint apps. And right now, its below freezing in San Antonio - I don't want to sit outside just to load something on the phone. Add to that, sitting outside to talk on the phone is really not fun.
I had a cell booster for a while -- the problem with that was 1- 15 feet of vertical distance between the base station and the antenna (not so easy on a 1-story house without getting on the roof) and 2 - the cable to connect the outside antenna to the base station has to come into the house somehow and I just didn't want to drill the holes!
A friend told me that he had similar problems, called Sprint and they sent him this nifty device that would plug into the internet connection in the house and create a sort of personal cell tower inside. I called Sprint, and sure enough -- they sent one out! (Apparently you do have to talk to someone for this -- I tried the online chat thing and they said to call Account Service) It arrived today and I have now plugged it in and I'm waiting for the lights to stop flashing -- they say up to 2 hours for the device to identify all the stuff it needs and set itself up (?!?)
*update* after 30+ minutes, the GPS signal still wasn't working. You need the GPS to prove that you are not trying to use the Airave to scam cellular coverage in another country. The thing does come with a GPS antenna - so I've plugged that in and put the receiver end in the window of the office. Hopefully that will work -- I really don't want to deal with mounting an antenna outside again :)
*update2* so it really did take 2 hours -- but now my phone shows data connection and all bars! woo hoo! now I can answer the phone inside the house and expect to keep the call more than 5 minutes!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
what have you shared on facebook?
Ever wonder what you've really shared on facebook? Facebook now has an option for users to download their account information:
from the facebook site:
from the facebook site:
"This is a copy of all of the personal information you've shared on Facebook. In order to protect your information, we will ask for authentication to verify your identity. Learn More about downloading a copy of your information.
WARNING: This file contains sensitive information. Because this download contains your profile information, you should keep it secure and take precautions when storing, sending or uploading it to any other services."
basically, you can download a file that will have all the wall posts (with comments if there are any), messages (sent to you and from you), events, pictures you've uploaded, all the info in your profile, and a list of all your friends. I don't have any videos shared, but I would guess those would download too.
If you have made comments on other people's posts -- those don't show up in your activity download, and you don't get any information on pictures that other people have tagged you in. I also don't see anything related to games or applications that you may have. So you aren't getting *everything* you've shared, but it's still pretty cool.
To download your info -- click on Account -> account settings -> download your account. You will be asked to verify your password, and then Facebook will send you an email once your download file is ready. Obviously the more you have posted to facebook, the bigger the file will be!
Once you get the file (it's a zip file), just extract it somewhere onto your desktop, the open the index.html file. This will give you a clickable page where you can see everything.
basically, you can download a file that will have all the wall posts (with comments if there are any), messages (sent to you and from you), events, pictures you've uploaded, all the info in your profile, and a list of all your friends. I don't have any videos shared, but I would guess those would download too.
If you have made comments on other people's posts -- those don't show up in your activity download, and you don't get any information on pictures that other people have tagged you in. I also don't see anything related to games or applications that you may have. So you aren't getting *everything* you've shared, but it's still pretty cool.
To download your info -- click on Account -> account settings -> download your account. You will be asked to verify your password, and then Facebook will send you an email once your download file is ready. Obviously the more you have posted to facebook, the bigger the file will be!
Once you get the file (it's a zip file), just extract it somewhere onto your desktop, the open the index.html file. This will give you a clickable page where you can see everything.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
more adventures with android....
I still have some issues with my contacts... everyone seems to be where they should be, except for my Dad. He shows up in my google contacts online, but never on the phone. I tried creating a new contact on the phone (twice!) which did update to my google contacts, but still didn't show up in the phone.
I've tried changing the name to Dad1, dad2.... still nothing. I finally created a new entry (father -- so formal!) which seems to be syncing over now. So maybe I will try renaming that contact to Dad and see what happens :) -- update to that -- change to dad and it goes missing again! I changed the name to My Dad -- which then merged this contact with my other Mom & Dad contact. Not sure why Dad is an issue and Mom is not, or why there is an issue anyway!!! Obviously something is messed up in my contacts, but I have no idea how to fix it! It also makes it where I can't change it back to Father now *sigh*
There are 2 other contacts that aren't syncing, but I am not going through one by one to figure out which ones of the 200 aren't there!
someday I will get this working!
I may have figured out why my battery life was so bad -- seems that I had left the map application running (I don't really know how to close an app other than the back button or home button) So I found another app that will work kinda like Windows Task Manager and let me kill things that are running. Maybe this will help!
I've tried changing the name to Dad1, dad2.... still nothing. I finally created a new entry (father -- so formal!) which seems to be syncing over now. So maybe I will try renaming that contact to Dad and see what happens :) -- update to that -- change to dad and it goes missing again! I changed the name to My Dad -- which then merged this contact with my other Mom & Dad contact. Not sure why Dad is an issue and Mom is not, or why there is an issue anyway!!! Obviously something is messed up in my contacts, but I have no idea how to fix it! It also makes it where I can't change it back to Father now *sigh*
There are 2 other contacts that aren't syncing, but I am not going through one by one to figure out which ones of the 200 aren't there!
someday I will get this working!
I may have figured out why my battery life was so bad -- seems that I had left the map application running (I don't really know how to close an app other than the back button or home button) So I found another app that will work kinda like Windows Task Manager and let me kill things that are running. Maybe this will help!
Monday, January 24, 2011
working with contacts....
more smartphone struggles :)
so far, I have copied the contacts from my old phone to my new phone about 3 times now. Somehow, contacts keep disappearing and I am not totally sure what does it. I think it has to do with the syncing to the Google account.
I have tried turning that off, but it still seems to randomly change the number of contacts that I have. For a while, I would see 3 (or more) different entries on my phone contact from my gmail account, 1 for un-synced phone and another for yahoo, but that seems to have cleared up on it's own (for now). But the total numbers still seems a bit off. Unless all the different entries per contact was counting as a different entry??
I have watched my google contacts (with the website) change when I manually tell the phone to sync. It looks like it brings everything from the phone back into my google account, but doesn't seem to be able to reconcile the duplicates when it does this. They all come in as 'Other Contacts' even if the same person/number is already in gmail as a co-worker/friend/whatever. Sometimes the merge gets rid of most of the new ones, but not all.
My problems could be because I also have a yahoo account in there doing something too -- but I shouldn't be losing things (other than my mind!). I think I have got the contacts sync turned off for yahoo, and maybe for gmail too. So maybe I will try fixing the contacts on the gmail site, then syncing them again and see what happens. But right now sync is broken (again!), so I will have to work on this later.
The other thing I seem to have lost (from the phone) is the ability to assign a ringtone to a group of contacts -- I can't even find where in the phone to assign someone to a group! So I have had to re-assign all the ringtones from all the groups one-by-one. (That is after I figured out how to add custom ring tones - but that is an entry for another time!)
More of the problem may be that I am unfamiliar with android and smartphones in general, but I do know computers fairly well -- I have had to search for more basic functionality for this phone than I have ever had to do for any other new technology (new laptops, new OSes, new browsers)
so far, I have copied the contacts from my old phone to my new phone about 3 times now. Somehow, contacts keep disappearing and I am not totally sure what does it. I think it has to do with the syncing to the Google account.
I have tried turning that off, but it still seems to randomly change the number of contacts that I have. For a while, I would see 3 (or more) different entries on my phone contact from my gmail account, 1 for un-synced phone and another for yahoo, but that seems to have cleared up on it's own (for now). But the total numbers still seems a bit off. Unless all the different entries per contact was counting as a different entry??
I have watched my google contacts (with the website) change when I manually tell the phone to sync. It looks like it brings everything from the phone back into my google account, but doesn't seem to be able to reconcile the duplicates when it does this. They all come in as 'Other Contacts' even if the same person/number is already in gmail as a co-worker/friend/whatever. Sometimes the merge gets rid of most of the new ones, but not all.
My problems could be because I also have a yahoo account in there doing something too -- but I shouldn't be losing things (other than my mind!). I think I have got the contacts sync turned off for yahoo, and maybe for gmail too. So maybe I will try fixing the contacts on the gmail site, then syncing them again and see what happens. But right now sync is broken (again!), so I will have to work on this later.
The other thing I seem to have lost (from the phone) is the ability to assign a ringtone to a group of contacts -- I can't even find where in the phone to assign someone to a group! So I have had to re-assign all the ringtones from all the groups one-by-one. (That is after I figured out how to add custom ring tones - but that is an entry for another time!)
More of the problem may be that I am unfamiliar with android and smartphones in general, but I do know computers fairly well -- I have had to search for more basic functionality for this phone than I have ever had to do for any other new technology (new laptops, new OSes, new browsers)
my new toy - day 1
I finally decided to join the technology age this weekend and get a smartphone. The one I got was the Samsung Transform running android 2.1. the sprint network doesn't support iPhone (not sure I would have gotten one anyway) and Blackberry doesn't have as cool of an app store.
For convenience I decided that I needed a phone with a real keypad. I have no idea how people type quickly on the on-screen ones. I try, and probably 1 out of 3 characters is wrong -- so even something as easy as 'hello' takes WAY to much time. Now maybe I am using the keyboard wrong (I habitually try to use my fingernails which doesn't work), but still -- my fingers are much bigger than that keyboard.
What I have found so far is that a smart phone, not so much designed to be a phone. There is no numeric speed dial which is driving me crazy. You can go and add contacts to favorites, but that still means clicking on connections, click on favorites, click and hold on the person, click on call the person, then if you have multiple numbers for that contact - select which number. Seriously?? calling from favorites takes 4 clicks at least???
I did find an app (Speed Dial Classic) that will let me use speed dial for numbers 0-9, so now all I need to do is click on the phone icon, then the number, then on the dial icon.... so now I am down to 3 clicks. I tried with the keyboard, on there you have to shift to change into number mode, enter then number, then click on the search for 'dial number '. So not a huge improvement, but depending on how many people are my favorites vs. the numbers I call most often, it might be worth it.
I am still struggling a bit with the touch screen -- I keep calling people by accident, and then not being able to answer calls because of needing to use the slidy answer phone thing. And I have noticed that cold hands do not work too well.
I do like having the email and RSS feeds to keep me entertained while I wait around for appointments... and the GPS came in really handy driving around with friends on Saturday night.
more updates later -- right now I am trying to figure out why my number of contacts keeps changing :(
For convenience I decided that I needed a phone with a real keypad. I have no idea how people type quickly on the on-screen ones. I try, and probably 1 out of 3 characters is wrong -- so even something as easy as 'hello' takes WAY to much time. Now maybe I am using the keyboard wrong (I habitually try to use my fingernails which doesn't work), but still -- my fingers are much bigger than that keyboard.
What I have found so far is that a smart phone, not so much designed to be a phone. There is no numeric speed dial which is driving me crazy. You can go and add contacts to favorites, but that still means clicking on connections, click on favorites, click and hold on the person, click on call the person, then if you have multiple numbers for that contact - select which number. Seriously?? calling from favorites takes 4 clicks at least???
I did find an app (Speed Dial Classic) that will let me use speed dial for numbers 0-9, so now all I need to do is click on the phone icon, then the number, then on the dial icon.... so now I am down to 3 clicks. I tried with the keyboard, on there you have to shift to change into number mode, enter then number, then click on the search for 'dial number '. So not a huge improvement, but depending on how many people are my favorites vs. the numbers I call most often, it might be worth it.
I am still struggling a bit with the touch screen -- I keep calling people by accident, and then not being able to answer calls because of needing to use the slidy answer phone thing. And I have noticed that cold hands do not work too well.
I do like having the email and RSS feeds to keep me entertained while I wait around for appointments... and the GPS came in really handy driving around with friends on Saturday night.
more updates later -- right now I am trying to figure out why my number of contacts keeps changing :(
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
New face of facebook....
After a month or so of bombarding me with notices telling me just how many of my friends are cooler than me and already switched to the new profile on facebook, I have a notice telling me I will be switched over now. I get that they have a new interface, they want people to use the new one, transition time, blah, blah -- but did they really need to annoy me with those other notices when they were going to make the new profile mandatory anyway?? I would rather they tell me in the beginning 'we have a new look, you will be changed over by date XX, if you want to change earlier, you can' and leave it at that. I don't need daily/hourly updates letting me know that I am not on the cutting edge of FB.
And who really looks at profile pages? Most of the time I go to FB, I look at the main status/updates, and messages -- that's it! Maybe I am just an anomaly in the FB world :) (I also don't play Farmville, so obviously somethings off!)
And while I am ranting on FB -- what's with my changes to privacy settings not working when I use Firefox? As far as I know, I have all the necessary scrips allowed, but every time I make a change to one of the settings (say from friends only to friends of friends), the option just switches itself back. Finally got my changes to fix using IE, but it was annoying!
And who really looks at profile pages? Most of the time I go to FB, I look at the main status/updates, and messages -- that's it! Maybe I am just an anomaly in the FB world :) (I also don't play Farmville, so obviously somethings off!)
And while I am ranting on FB -- what's with my changes to privacy settings not working when I use Firefox? As far as I know, I have all the necessary scrips allowed, but every time I make a change to one of the settings (say from friends only to friends of friends), the option just switches itself back. Finally got my changes to fix using IE, but it was annoying!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Microsoft January Updates...
What a nice start to the New Year -- only 2 updates from MS this month.
The first patch is only for users who are running MS Vistas. It fixes a vulnerability in the way Vista handles backup files (like those created by System Restore Points). A specially crafted backup file and DLL are needed to make an exploit happen. So far, there have been some proof of concept exploits for this, but nothing that shows attackers are using this yet. But still
The other affects XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008/2008 R2 -- so pretty much everyone out there. This one fixes a vulnerability in MS Data Access Components (basically this is how programs access data in a database) So to get hit by this one, a user just has to visit a malicious website -- an the attacker gets access to the system with the same privileges as whoever visited the site. Same as before -- some exploits exist, but nothing widespread has been seen.
The latest exploits for IE or the Graphic engine are not being fixed with these patches. There are exploits being seen for these two... stay tuned for the fix on these. MS has not said it will release an out-of-schedule patch for either.
The first patch is only for users who are running MS Vistas. It fixes a vulnerability in the way Vista handles backup files (like those created by System Restore Points). A specially crafted backup file and DLL are needed to make an exploit happen. So far, there have been some proof of concept exploits for this, but nothing that shows attackers are using this yet. But still
The other affects XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008/2008 R2 -- so pretty much everyone out there. This one fixes a vulnerability in MS Data Access Components (basically this is how programs access data in a database) So to get hit by this one, a user just has to visit a malicious website -- an the attacker gets access to the system with the same privileges as whoever visited the site. Same as before -- some exploits exist, but nothing widespread has been seen.
The latest exploits for IE or the Graphic engine are not being fixed with these patches. There are exploits being seen for these two... stay tuned for the fix on these. MS has not said it will release an out-of-schedule patch for either.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Time to update your Mac!
For all you Mac OS X people out there... Max OS X version 10.6.6 has been released.
The update patches a vulnerability that affects both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server ... the vulnerability could allow an attacker to run any code they want on the Mac machine.
here's the link to the update.
In addition to fixing the vulnerability, the update also includes the Mac App Store (it will now be in your Dock) for both server and desktop versions of OS X.
For servers, there are some additional fixes in there for some DNS resolution issues, and some other security improvements. Not sure what's in those changes for security -- the sites just tells us that the update "Improves Mac OS X Server security"
On the desktop side, there is a fix for erratic mouse movements on specific graphics cards, and also a fix for some cropping issues when printing in landscape.
happy patching
The update patches a vulnerability that affects both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server ... the vulnerability could allow an attacker to run any code they want on the Mac machine.
here's the link to the update.
In addition to fixing the vulnerability, the update also includes the Mac App Store (it will now be in your Dock) for both server and desktop versions of OS X.
For servers, there are some additional fixes in there for some DNS resolution issues, and some other security improvements. Not sure what's in those changes for security -- the sites just tells us that the update "Improves Mac OS X Server security"
On the desktop side, there is a fix for erratic mouse movements on specific graphics cards, and also a fix for some cropping issues when printing in landscape.
happy patching
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