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Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News The nine patches actually relate to 19 separate vulnerabilities in Windows, the .Net Framework, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, and Remote Desktop Client for Mac. [12 Aug 2009]
Hacking Leopard: Tools and Techniques for Attacking the Newest Mac OS X
White Paper It also reveals tools that are only found on Mac OS X and how they can be used to find security flaws, especially those that can be used in conjunction with fuzzing. By using the tools... [13 Jul 2009]
Apple goes on a security Safari with browser patches
News Independent security vendor Secunia gave the flaws addressed by the update a "highly critical" ranking. Both of the flaws affect WebKit, the open source layout engine used in Safari. The... [09 Jul 2009]
Analyzing and Preventing MAC-Layer Denial of Service Attacks for Stock 802.11 Systems
White Paper Leveraging security flaws in the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and the salient features of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), even an average person with limited knowledge of wireless networks... [14 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Affected software includes Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2008 for Mac, Office 2004 for Mac, and iterations of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The vulnerabilities, as detailed in Microsoft... [13 Aug 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News That means iPhone users may still be vulnerable to flaws discovered later than February. The iPhone runs a stripped-down version of Mac OS 10.5 and automatically checks for security... [04 Jul 2008]
'Huge' Apple update plugs 40 Leopard security holes
News The update, released this week, plugs flaws that render OS X Leopard users vulnerable to systems compromises including denial-of-service attacks, information disclosure and remote code execution. Currently at least... [30 May 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. Multiple... [23 Jan 2008]
Observations on the Message Integrity Code in IEEE802.11 Wireless LANs
White Paper To address the security flaws of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the IEEE802.11i draft defines two data confidentiality and integrity protocols, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and... [12 Jan 2008]
Apple OS X more vulnerable than Vista?
News He found Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X, faced more critical flaws than Windows XP and Vista combined. Ou wrote: "This shows that Apple had more than five times the number of... [20 Dec 2007]
Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up
News This includes several flaws that could lead to a remote attacker executing malicious code on a Mac in programs like Address Book, the Safari browser's RSS feed and CUPS (common Unix printing system),... [18 Dec 2007]
iPhone gets first update
News The new version, Safari 3.0.3, fixes some security flaws for both the Windows and Mac OS versions of the browser. It corrects a few flaws in Safari as well as in Webcore... [01 Aug 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by basic actions such as visiting a malicious website, watching a video file or opening... [12 Jul 2007]
Apple plugs 25 holes in OS X
News Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the operating system software. While several of the vulnerabilities repaired by... [20 Apr 2007]
Windows has fewest security holes
News Despite having the fewest security holes, Windows was hit by more critical flaws than either Red Hat Linux or Mac OS X, Symantec found. Microsoft Windows has the lowest number of... [23 Mar 2007]
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