Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi (of Pwn2Own fame) has released a suite of tools to demonstrate how to load an advanced rootkit on Mac OS X machines. The tools were first discussed at this year’s Black Hat security conference where Dai Zovi (right) presented techniques to manipulate the way the Mach micro-kernel uses RPC [...]
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Less than a week after fixing 19 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities, Apple is on the patch treadmill again. The company released Security Update 2009-004 to fix a solitary BIND vulnerability that could lead to denial of service attacks. Apple warns: A logic issue in the handling of dynamic DNS update messages may cause [...] If you are a member of the eBay Developer Program, you might want to change your password immediately. According to a warning from eBay’s Kumar Kandaswamy, a vulnerability in the service allows malicious hackers to gain information to developer accounts. The company is strongly encouraging its user base to change passwords to the developer.ebay.com [...] Apple has released Safari 4.0.3 to fix at least six security vulnerabilities that put Mac and Windows users at risk of hacker attacks. The update is considered highly-critical and should be immediately applied on both Windows and Mac systems because of the risk of information disclosure, phishing and remote code execution attacks. Here’s a snapshot [...] Today’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft comes with 9 security advisories, 5 of which are tagged as critical, 4 as important. Collectively, 19 flaws are addressed in these advisories, 15 of which are critical. This set of advisories also includes the bulletin that addresses the previously exploited Microsoft Office Web Components bug. The critical advisories include [...] |
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