The cat and mouse game between hackers and Apple takes another move, with news that Apple’s new Leopard operating system has already been successfully installed on Windows PCs.

The OSx86 Scene forum has released details of how Windows users can migrate to Apple’s new OS, without investing in new hardware — even though installing Leopard on an PC may be counter to Apple’s terms and conditions.

The forum is offering full instructions on how to install the system, including screenshots of the installation process.

Not all the features of Leopard function with the patch — Wi-Fi, support, for example, is reportedly inoperable. Historically, Apple’s likely next move will be to track down and act against those behind the hack.

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Biometric drives are becoming more and more common as the need to secure the data on the drives from theft and loss becomes more pressing. Typically we all tend to think that biometric flash drives are very secure and a god option for sensitive data. However, it seems that biometric flash drives aren’t nearly as secure as we might have thought, even when they use AES encryption.

While I am not sure of the brands of flash drives this guy hacked, he was able to access all encrypted data on both sticks by fooling the security program into seeing each fingerprint scanned as valid. On the drive with encryption he was even able to get access to the encrypted partitions without loosing the data. Moral of the story, your data isn’t as safe as you would like to think.

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