Security maven: QuickTime flaw threatens PCs, Macs
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Year-old bug pulls a fast on Firefox A researcher has demonstrated how a security bug in Apple's QuickTime media player that was disclosed a year ago can cause Firefox to install backdoors and other malware on a fully patched computer. He said both Windows and Mac systems are vulnerable.â¦
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Do not install a Quickbooks update seeded over the weekend if you're a Mac user, as multiple users are reporting that the update erases files from Desktop.
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Security researchers discover a serious vulnerability in older version of ICQ IM software.
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Complaints roll in claiming a problem in which QuickTime 7.4 disables Adobe After Effects.
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Blog: Many of the patches address flaws within QuickTime for Java.
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Apple has released a security fix for its QuickTime media player software, fixing a critical bug that had been worrying security experts for nearly a month.The update, released Wednesday, fixes a vulnerability in the RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) used by QuickTime to handle streaming media.On Jan. 10, researcher Luigi Auriemma disclosed the flaw by posting proof-of-concept attack code that could be used to run unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer. For the attack to work, the criminal would have to first trick the user into viewing a maliciously encoded QuickTime media file.With the attack code available, security researchers had been hoping that Apple would address the flaw. Wednesday&#39;s QuickTime 7.4.1 update is for both the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.It is Apple&#39;s fifth QuickTime update since October. The company has been forced to issue the flurry of patches as security researchers have taken a closer look at media player flaws during the past year. In December, Apple patched a separate RTSP vulnerability, which online criminals had already started to use in their attacks.&quot;In the past few months, QuickTime has been a prevalent target for security researchers,&quot; said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with nCircle Network Security. &quot;Internet media applications on the desktop have been a rich target for attackers, and this trend is sure to continue as most users aren&#39;t yet accustomed to attacks arriving in the form of a viral video.&quot;
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Update addresses potential denial-of-service vulnerabilities as well as a flaw in QuickTime.
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The same hacker who has found recent flaws in QuickTime and Windows Media Player claims to have discovered a PDF bug.
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Zango and cash In Brief A worm exploiting Javascript support within Apple's embedded QuickTime player has spread across the MySpace network.â¦
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Undetected by most AV apps Security mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to a the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to detect and even harder to remove.â¦
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InfoWorld - Apple has released a new security patch for QuickTime, its eighth update this year for the media player software.
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This QuickTime buffer overflow vulnerability appears to be different from a similar vulnerability patched by Apple in December 2007.
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Apple Computer last week released a security patch for its Mac OS X iChat instant messaging client, which contains a flaw that hackers could use to takeover a person&#39;s computer.
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InfoWorld - Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.
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Lament over Ultravox vuln A brace of bugs in Winamp pose a serious security risk for users of the popular media player package, security watchers warn.â¦
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Flaws in media players could automatically download malicious code, let hackers in.
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A attack on Windows machines that uses Internet Explorer and a vulnerability in a RealPlayer ActiveX control is spreading in the wild, and researchers say the situation is urgent.