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Washington Post SecurityFix blog has an interesting article about a new and rather sophisticated phishing scheme. The email not only used the first few digits of the users card number to look more plausible (even though the first part of the number is the same for all cards), but it also used a valid SSL certificate for its domain name.

Remember no financial institution would ask for your SSN, address or credit card number by email, or ask to to go to a web page that would ask for the same. They have this information. This includes Banks, eBay, PayPal or Amazon.com. Notice, they are using known numbers of your credit card, not the unknown numbers.

The Times Online reports that Microsoft is aiming to hit the must-have gadgets market with a two-pronged attack. “The software giant will target the youth market with a range of ‘iPod killers’ to be released over the next two years and go after high-flying executives with a revamped rival to BlackBerry, the mobile e-mail service. More …

MacInTouch has all those released and promised on one page. You can use command-f to find a specific application.

Apple posted a Web page that provides a listing of all known Universal Applications, those that run on the new Intel CPUs and PowerPC CPUs. There are 650 records as of publication time. A Search capability is available.

Apple posted a special Web page that provides support for the new iMac Core Duo. Apple is calling this first MacIntel to ship, the iMac (Early 2006).