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It seems Apple is getting into the social networking business, God help them. Among the other life changing products rolled out at this week’s semi-annual Apple fanboyfest this week was "Ping," a service that lets you see what music the other 160 million people using iTunes like and recommend.

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.

Apple’s new iOS 4 operating system for iPhone 3G and above pays close attention to your location, in good and maybe not-so-good ways.

Apple today patched the two vulnerabilities used to jailbreak Apple’s newest iOS 4 operating system, bugs that security researchers warned could be used to hijack iPhones, iPod Touches or iPads.

While the rest of the world focuses on the perceived issues surrounding the iPhone 4′s antenna reception, I thought I’d bring us back to something that really matters to iPhone users, namely, the security of Apple’s App Store, which just marked its two-year birthday.

Developers with the hacking group iPhone Dev-Team say they’re making steady progress in unlocking both the iPhone 4′s operating system, to run unofficial apps, and its network connection, to run on other GSM networks than AT&T’s.

A Vietnamese-based iPhone application developer may have recently bilked unsuspecting iPhone users out of hundreds of dollars in an apparent hack of the iTunes App Store. The apparent scam became public over the July 4th weekend after several news reports that 42 out of the 50 top ranked e-book applications in iTunes were all being sold by a seller named Thuat Nguyen. The rise of Nguyen’s apps corresponded with a spike in complaints of iTunes accounts being hacked and overcharged.

Avaya is prepping a device like an iPad for business, and will enlist help from Skype, Yahoo and Google to support business versions of their communications software.

Facebook phishing campaigns serving ZeuS crimeware, new Mac OS X malware variant, yet another cyber espionage network exposed, next to several reports detailing Opt-In botnets and how outdated…