Security

OS X Trojan In The Wild

by patrick

I usually refrain from posting “theoretical” OS X exploits since they rarely pose any real threat to Mac users. However, several sources are now reporting multiple Mac Trojan horses in the wild. These Trojans exploit a root vulnerability in Apple Remote Desktop Agent in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. This exploit has been rated [...]

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard

by patrick

Apple announced OS X 10.6 named Snow Leopard as more of a performance release rather than a feature release. Some of the announced changes include a smaller footprint (giving back some hard drive space), Microsoft Exchange support, extended 64-bit support to allow a theoretical 16TB of RAM, faster clock speeds with the multicore “Grand Central” [...]

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Pile of Patches for Leopard and Tiger

by patrick

Apple just released a big old pile of patches for the security-burdened Leopard and Tiger operating systems. Among the addressed problems:   Address Book Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution CFNetwork Impact: Visiting a malicious website could allow the automatic download of files to [...]

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