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    Today is the 15th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death

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    Steve Jobs with the Macintosh

    Today marks the 15th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death.

    Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. He died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side. His sister, writer Mona Simpson, described his passing: “Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve’s final words were: ‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.’” He then lost consciousness and passed away several hours later.

    There’s lots of ways to be as a person, and some people express their deep appreciation in different ways, but one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

    And you never meet the people, you never shake their hands, you never hear their story or tell yours, but somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there.

    And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So, we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us. That’s what’s going to keep Apple, Apple: is if we keep us, us. — Steve Jobs

    As always, we miss you, Steve!

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    Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/10/05/today-is-the-15th-anniversary-of-steve-jobs-death/

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    Fake Zoom installer tries to trick Mac users into installing hidden malware

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    A new Mac threat is hiding inside something that looks like a normal Zoom installer, according to security researchers at Jamf Threat Labs.

    The file opens as a disk named Zoom and looks like the usual Mac installer: an app icon on the left, a shortcut to the Applications folder on the right. The catch is a set of instructions printed on the background of that window. They tell the user to open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and enter an administrator password.

    Those steps are how the attack gets past Apple’s Gatekeeper, which would otherwise block the file because it is not properly signed by a trusted developer. Once the user follows the instructions, a fake password prompt appears. The installer checks the password against the Mac account and keeps asking until it is correct. A window then says Zoom is downloading, even though researchers did not see a real Zoom install complete in the samples they tested.

    The password is used on the machine to launch a hidden second program that Jamf is calling CloudSyncD. It works on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs. After it starts, it sends basic details about the computer to the attacker and checks back every few seconds for new instructions. Those instructions can include more software for the attacker to run later.

    Jamf first spotted an unfinished version of CloudSyncD on September 15th. Within two days, later samples were talking to live servers, a sign the operation had moved past testing. In the versions researchers examined, the malware did not set itself to restart after a reboot, and it did not appear to steal browser passwords or wallet data on its own. The immediate goal is quiet access to the Mac.

    The safest defense is also the simplest. Download Zoom, and other apps, only from the Mac App Store or the developer’s own site. If an installer tells you to click Open Anyway and type your password, close it.

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    Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/10/02/fake-zoom-installer-tries-to-trick-mac-users-into-installing-hidden-malware/