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Sep
14
Another QuickTime Vulnerability – Apple Still Don’t Get Security
Filed Under Computers & Tech, Security on September 14, 2007 at 1:30 pm
It’s not long ago that I posted about Apple not patching their SAMBA implementation for months after a patch became available. Now there is a Quick Time vulnerability in the wild that was apparently reported to Apple about a year ago. I constantly give off to Microsoft for this kind of carry-on, so, each time I catch Apple at it I’m going to highlight it too. The Mac user experience is currently fantastic but Apple’s continued complacency about security is putting that experience at serious risk. How bad will things have to get before Apple cop on to themselves?
For more details on this vulnerability (which affects Windows too) check out this Mac World article
[tags]Apple, Security, QuickTime[/tags]
Bart – this is possibly real, but the article from MacWorld UK is probably one of the worst written articles I’ve ever seen published. there are sentences that lack the basic structure of a sentence, random commas thrown in that derail the sentences, all kinds of garbage. Was this really written by professionals?
Example: “If a user has Firefox installed, even if he is running IE, he’d vulnerable.”
Example: “In practice I can do anything with the browser, like installing browser backdoors, and the operating system if the victim is running with administrative privileges,” Petkov said in the write-up he posted Wednesday.”
Did he say he can install the operating system? wow, that IS a big flaw.
I’m sure it’s a real threat like I said, but I hope there’s a better article out there to explain it – I can hardly follow their points it’s written so badly.
Allison
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