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PatchMan: iTunes 9.2.1 is out – update now!

Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 21/07/2010

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I love my iPod and with it follows iTunes. The latest vulnerability in iTunes was reported to Apple by Clint Ruoho of Laconic Security and it has been fixed in version 9.2.1.

This is a buffer overflow in the handling of “itpc:” URLs. Accessing a malicious site through this protocol could lead to remote code execution (itpc URLs are used iTunes to access podcast feeds).

Read more here
Download the updated version here

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PatchMan: Adobe and Apple under fire

Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 17/04/2010

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Check out the Marc Maiffret Q&A at CNET News

And you think Apple is taking it seriously too now?
Maiffret: Oh yeah. It’s even a little scarier with them because they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses, etc. Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s found a new Apple vulnerability. If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn’t claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very much

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And you think Apple is taking it (Security) seriously too now?

Maiffret: Oh yeah. It’s even a little scarier with them because they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses, etc. Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s found a new Apple vulnerability. If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn’t claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very much not.

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