The UK's IT Week reports on a po ible new Mac OS X exploit. A proof of concept a ears on the Info-pull.com we ite, claiming that corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures are vulnerable to denial of service attacks. If true, this same i ue may affect Free D i tallatio . The article suggests disabling "open 'safe files' after downloading", which realistically eaking you've probably already done a long time ago if you've been worried about po ible OS X attacks.
Monday, 24 July 2006
New Mac OS X Exploit?
The UK's IT Week reports on a po ible new Mac OS X exploit. A proof of concept a ears on the Info-pull.com we ite, claiming that corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures are vulnerable to denial of service attacks. If true, this same i ue may affect Free D i tallatio . The article suggests disabling "open 'safe files' after downloading", which realistically eaking you've probably already done a long time ago if you've been worried about po ible OS X attacks.
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