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Samsung bites back Apple with lawsuit

Samsung Electronics said it has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging patent infringements, days after the US technology firm took the South Korean company to court on similar grounds.

Samsung said it filed suit Thursday in a Seoul court alleging five patent infringements by Apple. Separate suits were filed in Tokyo citing two patent infringements and in the German city of Mannheim citing three.

"Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to protect our intellectual property and to ensure our continued innovation and growth in the mobile communications business," the company said in a statement which gave no details of the alleged infringements.

The announcement came a week after Apple filed suit against Samsung in San Francisco claiming that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers.

Apple's lawsuit says Samsung's mobile phones and Galaxy Tab imitated the iPhone and the iPad. Samsung vowed at the time to "respond actively".

The Galaxy Tab has been the best-selling rival to the iPad, which has dominated the growing market for the touchscreen devices.

Despite their prickly competition in finished products, the two firms have a close business relationship.

Apple was Samsung's second-largest client in 2010 after Japan's Sony Corp, accounting for four percent of the South Korean firm's 155 trillion won ($142 billion) annual revenue.

"We are Samsung's largest customer (for liquid crystal display panels and semiconductors) and Samsung is a very valued component supplier to us," Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said Wednesday in the United States.

But Apple filed its lawsuit because the Korean company had "crossed the line", he said.

In comments Thursday, Samsung's chairman Lee Kun-Hee said Apple was trying to keep his company in check.

"It's like the proverbial nail that sticks out gets hammered down," Lee told reporters, according to Yonhap news agency.

"Not only Apple, but also unrelated companies that do not produce electronics products are increasingly trying to keep Samsung in check."

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Security Patches OS X 10 10 1 iOS 8 1 1 Apple TV 7 0 2

APPLE-SA-2014-11-17-2 OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

OS X 10.10.1 is now available and addresses the following:

CFNetwork

Available for:  OS X Yosemite v10.10

Impact:  Website cache may not be fully cleared after leaving private browsing

Description:  A privacy issue existed where browsing data could remain in the cache after leaving private browsing. This issue was addressed through a change in caching behavior. 

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-4460

Spotlight

Available for:  OS X Yosemite v10.10

Impact:  Unnecessary information is included as part of the initial connection between Spotlight or Safari and the Spotlight Suggestions servers

Description:  The initial connection made by Spotlight or Safari to the Spotlight Suggestions servers included a users approximate location before a user entered a query. This issue was addressed by removing this information from the initial connection and only sending the users approximate location as part of queries. 

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-4453 : Ashkan Soltani

System Profiler About This Mac

Available for:  OS X Yosemite v10.10

Impact:  Unnecessary information is included as part of a connection to Apple to determine the system model

Description:  The request made by About This Mac to determine the model of the system and direct users to the correct help resources included unnecessary cookies. This issue was addressed by removing cookies from the connection.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-4458 : Landon Fuller of Plausible Labs

WebKit

Available for:  OS X Yosemite v10.10

Impact:  Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description:  A use after free issue existed in the handling of page objects. This issue was addressed through improved memory management. 

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-4459

APPLE-SA-2014-11-17-3 Apple TV 7.0.2
Apple TV 7.0.2 is now available and addresses the following:

Apple TV
Available for:  Apple TV 3rd generation and later Impact:  An attacker with a privileged network position may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description:  Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4452
CVE-2014-4462

Apple TV
Available for:  Apple TV 3rd generation and later Impact:  A local user may be able to execute unsigned code Description:  A state management issue existed in the handling of Mach-O executable files with overlapping segments. This issue was addressed through improved validation of segment sizes.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4455 : @PanguTeam

Apple TV
Available for:  Apple TV 3rd generation and later Impact:  A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description:  A validation issue existed in the handling of certain metadata fields of IOSharedDataQueue objects. This issue was addressed through relocation of the metadata.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4461 : @PanguTeam

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