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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...
[28 Mar 2008]
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...
[18 Feb 2008]
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
[08 Feb 2008]
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...
[23 Jan 2008]
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.
[20 Dec 2007]
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.
[18 Dec 2007]
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.
[24 Oct 2007]
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...
[24 Oct 2007]
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...
[17 Oct 2007]
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.
[10 Oct 2007]
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...
[14 Aug 2007]
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.
[02 May 2007]
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...
[06 Mar 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...
[31 Jan 2007]
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.
[24 Jan 2007]
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...
[23 Jan 2007]
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...
[03 Jan 2007]
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...
[06 Dec 2006]
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.
[05 Dec 2006]
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.
[28 Jun 2006]
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