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Thursday | January 8th, 2009

Entries Tagged as 'vulnerability'

Don’t Trust That Passcode

Posted under Hardware, vulnerability, Commentary, security, iPhone, software, Apple on August 27th, 2008 by admin0 comments

Ryan Naraine reported over at ZDNet Zero Day on a new iPhone vulnerability which lets anyone have full access to the majority of iPhone functionality despite your clever 4-digit passcode lock.
As mentioned by “greenmymac” and covered by The Register, full access to contacts (and, hence, browser, e-mail, SMS…) is as simple as a press of […]

Microsoft Patches Office, Commits to VBA Support

Posted under microsoft office, patch, service pack, vulnerability, Commentary, software, security, News, Apple on May 13th, 2008 by admin0 comments

Microsoft has been busy today, releasing security updates, announcing a new service pack and committing to restoring functionality to their Mac office suite.
Yep, It’s Patch Tuesday Again
Microsoft released security bulletin MS08-014 today that contains a patch to a remote code execution vulnerability effecting Microsoft Office 2004 & 2008 for Macintosh. Office 2004 is bumped up to […]

Zero Day Exploit For QuickTime Flaw

Posted under os-x, rtsp, vulnerability, exploit, QuickTime, software, security, Tips, Apple on January 11th, 2008 by admin0 comments

InformationWeek is reporting that an Italian security researcher has posted a exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in QuickTime 7.3.1 that impacts both OS X and Windows versions of the software. This exploit will allow an attacker to execute malicious code on the target system.
The “researcher”, Luigi Auriemma, describes the exploit as being based on a flaw in QuickTime’s […]