Given Apple’s retraction of the Mac OS X 10.2.8 update, the OpenSSH vulnerabilities present in prior versions of OS X remain unresolved. Thankfully, Mario Diana has put together a guide to upgrading OpenSSH on 10.2.x. Following the provided steps will fix the recently-discovered security problems by installing newer versions of OpenSSL and OpenSSH.

Posted at 11:08 AM PDT with these tags: mac, security

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Pre-requisite reading: Installing phpMyAdmin, Useful Apache Tweaks

Prior to the arrival of Mac OS X, there weren’t many e-commerce software applications available for people to wanted to build and host an online shop on the Mac platform. With the arrival of an operating system that supports Apache, PHP, and MySQL, however, would-be Mac shopkeepers now have all the tools they need to configure and operate their very own web-based e-commerce storefront.

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Posted at 12:07 AM PDT with these tags: mac, web, e-commerce

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Sarwat Khan has released three new development tools for Python programmers: userdefaults, plistservices, and CFPython. These the first two tools make it easier to read/write preference data on OS X, while the third offers better integration between Python and the CoreFoundation API. Given the shortage of Python development tools for Mac OS X, this is indeed good news. If you find these tools useful, please be sure to let Sarwat know how much you appreciate his efforts.

Posted at 8:23 PM PDT with these tags: mac, python, tools

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SpamAssassin users with certain configurations may find that messages they receive are mistakenly flagged as spam coming from open relays. The problem, discussed in more detail on the Use Perl site (along with a fix), appears to be caused by a distributed denial of service attack on open relay blacklist maintainer Osirusoft, who is now returning back every IP as a spam source when queried.

Posted at 8:22 PM PDT with these tags: email, spam

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