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Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo However, when the system was up and running it handled streaming video from YouTube and playing QuickTime movie trailers without too many hiccups. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the onboard internet...

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

QuickTime flaw could fuel Second Life stealing

News Researchers have shown how exploiting a flaw within QuickTime could allow an attacker could steal from other users in Second Life. While Second Life does not install QuickTime, it invites users to install the player if they want to see multimedia...

Tags: second life, bank, security, linden lab

[18 Feb 2008]

Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest

News The prize was shared between security researchers, Dino Dai Zovi and Shane Macauley, for their successful use of a zero-day QuickTime vulnerability, which they used to compromise the MacBook. Security from A to Z

Tags: leopard, apple, microsoft, vista

[08 Feb 2008]

Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks

News A serious threat to all computer systems comes from websites that have been planted with malicious code, which exploit flaws in applications such as Internet Explorer, and Apple's Quicktime. If Mac users fall for scams that PC users have faced for...

Tags: apple, malware, mac, exploit

[23 Jan 2008]

An Experimental Investigation of the End-to-End QoS of the Apple Darwin Streaming Server

whitepaper The considered end-to-end QoS parameters are loss rates and friendliness experienced in the presence of variable available bandwidth and when multiple QuickTime streaming sessions and/or TCP sessions compete in order to obtain a bandwidth share.

Tags: quality of service

[20 Dec 2007]

Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up

News Apple updated QuickTime last week in order to fix an important flaw in that program. It's download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard have been made available by Apple.

Tags: apple, mac, tiger, leopard

[18 Dec 2007]

Mac OS X for Java Geeks: QuickTime for Java

whitepaper Unsurprisingly, Java turned to QuickTime, one of the oldest and most sophisticated media APIs available. When Java first came out, multimedia APIs were relatively weak; scratchy 8- bit sound just doesn't cut it in today's world.

Tags: java, media, apis, desktops

[24 Oct 2007]

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Watch Videos Within Firefox

whitepaper In the case of QuickTime video (such as movie trailers), once Linux was able to play them, one still couldn't watch them in a browser: instead one had to put on the detective hat and often dig around in the web page source for the URL one needed...

Tags: streaming media, video, geeks, files

[24 Oct 2007]

QuickTime for Java: Working With QuickDraw

whitepaper QuickDraw is a graphics API that can be traced all the way back to that first Mac Steve Jobs pulled out of a bag and showed the press more than 20 years ago. The real advantage to understanding QuickDraw is that it's what's used to work with...

Tags: graphics applications, graphics, api, press

[17 Oct 2007]

iMovie HD & IDVD 5: Camcorder Meets Mac

whitepaper Apple says that iMovie HD requires a Mac OS X machine (10.3.4 or later) with at least 256 MB of memory; QuickTime 6.5.2 or later; 2 GB of free hard drive space and a screen that can show at least 1024 x 768 pixels.

Tags: digital cameras, mac, mac os, imovie

[10 Oct 2007]

Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher

News Another vector is Safari, which when opened also opens several applications including: Address Book, BOMArchiveHelper, Dictionary, DiskImageMounter, Finder, Help Viewer, iCal, iChat, iPhoto, iTunes, Keynote, Mail, Preview, QuickTime Player, Script...

Tags: security, mac, os x, hacking

[14 Aug 2007]

Apple fixes 'hack-a-Mac hole'

News Apple has released a QuickTime update to fix a security flaw that was used to breach a MacBook Pro at a recent security conference. The media player vulnerability lies in QuickTime for Java, Apple said in a security alert.

Tags: quicktime, hole, apple, mac

[02 May 2007]

Apple plugs yet more QuickTimes holes

News Apple has released updates to its QuickTime media player software to repair eight serious security vulnerabilities. In all cases, an attacker could craft a malicious file which, when opened with QuickTime, could give the miscreant full control over...

Tags: quicktime, hole, apple

[06 Mar 2007]

Stories of the month - January 2007

News Warning over "critical" QuickTime hole Stories about work generated lots of interest in January - perhaps because it is traditionally the month when everyone starts looking around for new jobs. One story that received a lot of interest - and...

Tags: vista, ces, graduates, women in it

[31 Jan 2007]

Apple patches QuickTime flaw at last

News Apple has released a fix for a serious security hole in its QuickTime media player software. The QuickTime vulnerability relates to how the media player software handles the Real Time Streaming Protocol, or RTSP, according to an Apple alert.

Tags: patch, quicktime, flaw, apple

[24 Jan 2007]

Spam King gets a MySpace suit

News In December, the site had to deal with a QuickTime worm that posted links to fraudulent websites by exploiting a vulnerability in MySpace's architecture. MySpace.com has filed a lawsuit against Scott Richter, the so-called 'Spam King' who allegedly...

Tags: richter, myspace, spam king, lawsuit

[23 Jan 2007]

Warning over "critical" QuickTime hole

News A newly disclosed security vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime software could put both Macs and Windows PCs at risk of cyber attacks, experts have warned. The QuickTime vulnerability relates to how the media player software handles the Real Time...

Tags: bug, quicktime, flaw, apple

[03 Jan 2007]

MySpace to Apple: Fix QuickTime fast

News MySpace.com wants Apple to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site. The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend...

Tags: myspace, quicktime, computer worm, apple

[06 Dec 2006]

MySpace worm goes phishing

News The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support for JavaScript in Apple's embedded media player, web security company Websense said in an alert posted last week.

Tags: myspace, phishing, worm

[05 Dec 2006]

Mac OS X gets security fix

News Apple's last security update was in May, addressing bugs in Mac OS X and QuickTime. Apple on Tuesday released an update for its Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.

Tags: flaw, fix, mac os x, apple

[28 Jun 2006]

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