Security experts are concerned over the increasing vulnerability of the Mac operating system to virus attacks. Once almost immune to viruses and malware, Mac users are finding that they too are falling victims of online criminals, like Windows system users.

Security experts have pointed out flaws in Mac OS X that make Mac users easy targets of online attacks. For example, there is high probability that a hacker or a virus creator can surreptitiously access Macs and run malicious code without the user even knowing about it.

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Authentication
An authentication system is how you identify yourself to the computer. The goal behind an authentication system is to verify that the user is actually who they say they are.

Authorization
Once the system knows who the user is through authentication, authorization is how the system decides what the user can do. A good example of this is using group permissions or the difference between a normal user and the superuser on a unix system.

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http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/security/auth.html
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Skype, the fast-growing internet communications company that belongs to Ebay, has admitted that its partner in China has filtered text messages, defending this compliance with censorship laws as the only way to do business in the country.

In a Financial Times interview, Niklas Zennström, Skype’s chief executive, responded to accusations that the company had censored text messages containing words like “Falun Gong� – a banned movement – and “Dalai Lama�. He said that Tom Online, its joint venture partner in China, was complying with local law.

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– For years, my desk has been cluttered by two computers — one Macintosh and one PC. It’s been an arrangement of necessity, as I prefer the Mac but sometimes need a Windows machine for work.

So it was with great interest that I read about Apple Computer Inc.’s launch last week of a program allowing newer Intel-based Macs to boot Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system. A day later, another company unveiled software that runs Windows in Mac OS X at nearly full speed.

In both cases, software emulation isn’t required because the new Macs share the same hardware brains as Windows PCs. Unlike Microsoft’s Virtual PC program that lets some Windows programs run on my old PowerPC-based Mac, there’s no significant performance hit.

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Skype has purchased VoIP provider Sonorit for about $27m in eBay stock. The transaction includes Sonorit’s US subsidiary Camino Networks.

Sonorit and Camino specialise in technology to enhance the quality of VoIP conversations, which is widely considered to be inferior to that offered by copper wire-based telephone connections.
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On a cold night two years ago, Brad Husick and Rakesh Mathur sat in a rental car near Fairbanks, Alaska, waiting to photograph the aurora borealis. Dressed in parkas and with temperatures dipping below zero, the buddies dreamed up a radical technological idea: What if you could browse thousands of Web pages without being connected to the Internet?

“It was sort of a strange, audacious, crazy question to ask,” recalled Husick. But the two entrepreneurs — who made names for themselves at NetGravity and Junglee — returned to Seattle to make the idea a reality.

Today, Husick and Mathur are introducing Webaroo — a Bellevue company whose free software allows users of laptops and hand-held computers to take portions of the Web with them wherever they wander.

The technology, which stores Web pages on a laptop’s hard drive or a mobile phone’s storage card, could have wide-ranging implications.

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