<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px">In this issue:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">1. May 2011 Microsoft Security Updates</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">2. iOS Update Fixes Location Services Bug</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">3. Malware for Macs on the Rise?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">1. May 2011 Microsoft Security Updates</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">On Tuesday, May 10, Microsoft plans to issue two security bulletins for Patch Tuesday, to address three vulnerabilities. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">The bulletins will address a flaw in Windows, rated critical, and the other will address two flaws in PowerPoint, rated important.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">Read the full May security bulletin:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">2. iOS Update Fixes Location Services Bug</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial">Last week, Apple released iOS 4.3.3 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (and 4.2.8 for the Verizon iPhone), to address the recently highlighted iOS location cache bugs and concerns, specifically addressing the following:</p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">Reduces the size of the cache </li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">No longer backs the cache up to iTunes</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">The update addresses concerns made by the public about the feature in iOS 4 that stored a database of up to a year's worth of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. Apple admitted that the data should not be collected when users turn off Location Services on their iPhone, and the fact that it was being stored was a bug. Supposedly the next major iOS software release will encrypt the file on the iPhone, ensuring that the data can not be obtained by a third party for illicit purposes.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">Users can download the update through iTunes.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">Read the notice by Apple: <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1358></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">3. Malware for Macs on the Rise?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">I hope that by now the myth that Macs are immune to malware/computer viruses has been put to rest. Macs are certainly not immune. In fact, there have been several articles in the news recently that talk about new malware targeting Macs. The first is a threat called Mac Defender, a fake antivirus program that simulates infection and tries to get you to download a tool to remove the infection, but instead causes the infection to occur. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">To avoid this threat, never trust pop up windows warning you of an infection, unless they are coming from your antivirus software, if you have one. If you don't already have one, get a real antivirus software from a reputable source. IS&T provides McAfee antivirus software free to the MIT community.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">See: <<a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/available-software>">http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/available-software></a> and search for the software type "antivirus."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">A second threat that may get worse is a do-it-yourself kit provided by hackers to create your own Mac malware. Similar kits have already been available for Windows. But this is the first targeting Apple systems, and Macs, iPhones, iPods and iPads are all targets and will be vulnerable if you don't protect them. Be sure to install any security updates Apple makes available.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #333233">More details about both these threats can be found here: <http://deputycio.com/2169/are-there-any-mac-viruses></p>
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