Apple patches holes

Apple Computer has shipped a security update to patch five Mac OS X security flaws. Eweek reports that Apple has warned that the most dangerous bug could be exploited to bypass security restrictions.

In an advisory, Apple urged users to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4.3 to protect against security bypass and system exposure attacks.

The most serious of the five flaws is an error in "memberd," the daemon process used by the system to resolve group memberships. The update also fixes an error in the Keychain access utility and several errors in the kernel that could allow the disclosure of memory to local users.

The Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by Microsoft in a case involving claims by a privately held California software firm and the University of California that Microsoft infringed their patents with its Internet Explorer browser, reports Reuters.

Without comment, the high court rejected an appeal by Microsoft that it said involved more than 64% of the $521 million patent infringement ruling against the software giant.

Microsoft sought review of an appeals court ruling that allows Eolas Technologies and the University of California to seek royalties based on the foreign manufacture and sale of an infringing software-related product.

Canadian telecoms service provider Telus has entered into an agreement to use a Nokia broadband infrastructure to build and support Telus`s next-generation IP broadband access network, reports Lightreading.com.

Telus has selected the Nokia D500 IP DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer) multiservice platform, equipped with ADSL2+ technology to create multi-megabit bandwidth capacity and greater reach for the operator`s services, specifically its highly anticipated broadband services.