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Microsoft Detects New Malware Attacking Mac OS X

Microsoft Detects New Malware Attacking Mac OS X

Posted on May 03, 2012 by MG1

Jeong Wook Oh of Microsoft's Malware Protection Center reports that his team has stumbled across a new piece of malware targeting Apple OS X computers. It exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in the Office productivity suite which Microsoft actually patched back in June 2009 (MS09-027). Almost three years later, not all machines have the patch installed, thus leading to the spread of this new hacker tool.

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Mac OS X sandbox security hole discovered, present in 10.5 and up

Mac OS X sandbox security hole discovered, present in 10.5 and up

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 by MG1

Starting with version 10.5 of its desktop OS, Apple has allowed developers to voluntarily remove functionality from their applications using a set of pre-defined profiles — nixing network access, or the ability to write to the filesystem, for example — as a way to limit the damage an app could do should it be compromised in the wild. CoreLabs Research has discovered a way to route around these limits: using Apple Events, a given application can launch other applications that don't have the same restrictions in place. Imagine an application that's been specifically prohibited from accessing the Internet being able to launch a fully-functioning Safari, and you'll get the idea.

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Twitter for Mac launching in Mac App Store tomorrow

Twitter for Mac launching in Mac App Store tomorrow

Posted on Jan 06, 2011 by MG15

Longing for an updated version of Tweetie for Mac? Well, come tomorrow — rumored to be exactly at noon ET when the Mac App Store launches

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