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  • Indiana Leopard: Cat Lady Kills Big Cat

    Apparently the love of a “crazy cat lady” comes with size restrictions.

    A leopard has been shot and killed on the property of a woman in Charlestown, Indiana. Concerned about a recent spate of attacks on neighborhood pets, the woman and her boyfriend sat up all night, watching what they believed was going to be a bobcat.

    Upon seeing movement at the tree line on the edge of her land, the as yet unidentified woman instructed her male companion to shoot. They were, naturally, surprised to find that the animal was a leopard, a species native to vast areas of land across Africa and Asia—but not Indiana.

    Adult leopards can weigh up to 200 lbs. and run at speeds of up to 35 mph. Bobcats typically weigh around 30 lbs. So if she indeed thought this animal was a bobcat, it would have been a doozy.

    The woman owns several housecats and was concerned for their safety. According to a neighbor, Donna Duke, “she’s got cats that are basically her family.”

    Officials are searching for the origin of the big cat. Indiana residents are allowed to keep such exotic animals, provided they have the appropriate permit, but no legal owners of leopards have yet claimed responsibility.

    This incident comes on the heels of a tiger attack in western Indiana on Friday. Marissa Dub, 21, a worker at an exotic cat rescue operation in Center Point, Ind. was mauled while cleaning the cage of an adult tiger named Raja.

  • Apple Updates OS X Leopard With Flashback Removal Tool

    With the release of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard two years ago, the release of OS X 10.7 Lion last year, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion coming sometime later this summer, nobody thinks much anymore about older versions of the Mac operating system. For the most part, OS X 10.5 Leopard has been put out to pasture. Apparently, however, the recent kerfluffle over the Flashback malware targeted at Macs has drawn Apple’s eye back to the abandoned OS.

    Late yesterday Apple pushed out updates to OS X Leopard that included several Flashback-related security fixes. First and foremost, the update includes Apple’s Flashback removal tool, which “removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware.” Second, an update to Safari turns off the browser’s Java plugin, thus closing the vulnerability that was allowing Flashback to install on users’ computers. Of course, for Leopard users who feel like living on the edge, there are instructions for turning it back on. Finally, the update now disables outdated versions of Adobe Flash Player, pointing users to Adobe’s website so they can download the most up-to-date (i.e., most secure) version of Flash Player.

    Now, if you’re a Leopard user who hasn’t gotten these updates yet, go ahead and fire up Software Update and get them. But you probably shouldn’t get too used to having Apple throw updates your way. With Moutain Lion coming soon, Leopard is about to be three full generations behind, which means that Apple isn’t likely to pay it much attention unless there’s another major malware outbreak.