It’s time to do that Update Dance! Run your Software Update boys and gals, Apple’s got some patches and fixes for you.
Apple has released yet another Security Update which addresses issues in bzip2, CFNetwork, Core Audio, cscope, gnuzip, Kerberos, mDNSResponder, PDFKit, PHP, Quartz Composer, samba, WebKit, and WebCore. This update is recommended for everyone and [...]
Sorry guys, I’ve been a bit too busy to post full-length entries but here’s what’s caught my eye this last few days.
A MacBook with all the latest security patches was hacked in a ‘PWN 2 0WN‘ hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday. The hack made use of a vulnerability in Safari to gain user root access of the MacBook. Shane Macaulay and Dino Zovi, who came up with the hack, won a MacBook Pro and USD10,000. More info courtesy of News.com and Macworld.
Apple has released Security Update 2007-004 which fixes 25 flaws. The fixes patch a trio of zero-day bugs that were disclosed as part of the Month of Apple Bugs campaign, reports News.com.
You can find out all the details of the Security Update on in this Apple Knowledge Base article. The update can be downloaded by [...]
Security firm Secunia has posted an advisory about a potential Mac OS X UDIF Memory Corruption Vulnerability. The bug was discovered as part of the “Month of Kernel Bugs” (MOKB) campaign which aims to expose a new Mac OS X flaw every day of the month. How nice.
Here’s the deal: The bug is packaged as [...]
Whoops, looks like someone really messed up somewhere. Apple has posted an article on their support site titled “Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus”
We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the [...]
The one thing that stands out for me about owners of Apple products are their passion. Apple users, computers owners especially, absolutely love their hardware. It’s something that you don’t generally see in PC users.
Case in point is John Gruber, who writes the awesome Daring Fireball weblog. A few weeks ago, two ’security experts’, [...]
Be Fearless. That’s Symantec Corp’s tagline that I really like. Recently their blog basically told Mac users to be fearless, there are no viruses for Mac OS X:
Simply put, at the time of writing this article, there are no file-infecting viruses that can infect Mac OS X.
The entry on their Security Response blog went on [...]
