Apple, Inc has released a new security patch for Mac and Windows users. According to Apple, this security update fixes QuickTime’s buffer overflow issue surrounding use of RTS protocol. About three weeks ago, MOAB issued a security report which says that the flaw of QuickTime in handling RTSP URLs may allow malacious exploiters to direct QuickTime users to bogus websites.
For more information, check out Apple’s security page for Apple Releasing Security Update 2007-001.
As several people have posted comments in the past week, we are opening six video tutorials to the public for free viewing on top of six another ones for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator that we released last week. Click on ‘VTC Central’ on the side bar to check what’s available for free viewing.
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The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) is a group of security experts who have chosen January 2007 as the security month for Mac OS X applications. MOAB says that one of the most popular FTP applications from Panic Inc for the Mac platform may have a security vulnerability. According to MOAB’s latest online publication, data transmission through Secure FTP connection with the latest version (v.3.5) of Transmit (and any older version) can suffer “an exploitable heap-based buffer overflow condition.”
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An article written by Dawn Kawamoto at CNET NEWS.com warns Internet users of dangerous spam e-mail messagesthat are going around. These messages have interesting subject lines, which entice users to read them. And these malicious e-mail messages come with an attachment. If recipients open the attachment, their terminals will turn into zombie computers. Furthermore, according to Kawamoto, this so-called ‘Storm Worm’ contains a Trojan-horse type computer virus. Unless recipients open the attachment, no harm will be likely to be done.
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