Mac OS X 10.4 Security Vulnerability: Java/QT Vector
Are Macintoshes just a “little” more secure? Here’s a good article on an opening discovered in the last week in Mac OS X 10.4’s security, a vulnerability in the interaction between Quicktime, Java and a Macintosh web browser, including Firefox and Safari. It enables a malicious programmer to potentially control a Macintosh OS X 10.4 system by simply directing the visitor to a specially coded website. As of the writing of this note, Apple has not yet published a security update in response to this discovery.
The hacker who’s watching me type this is smiling to herself somewhere. And the hacker who’s watching her watching me is smiling, too… when one “discovers” something new in the universe, like E=MC squared, we all just find out a little bit more how we’ve been living all along. When we discover a vulnerabilty in the code of the universe, will we recognize it?
http://securitywatch.eweek.com/apple/mac_hacked_via_safari_browse
