MonthOfAppleBugs Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

More MOAB fixes from Landon Fuller

by Michael Rose (Jan 22nd, 2007)

It was a busy weekend for Landon Fuller and his crew of white-hat hackers working to plug the holes in Mac OS X and associated applications revealed by Month of Apple Bugs. His most recent two posts detail patches for Transmit and iChat, a mount warning for disk image downloads in Safari, and a ...

VLC patched with MOAB fix

by Michael Rose (Jan 4th, 2007)

See, that didn't take long! VideoLAN's VLC media player has been revised to version 0.8.6a, which closes the vulnerability noted by Month of Apple Bugs and also makes improvements to Full Screen Mode. If you aren't already using VLC for its incredible powers of playback and streaming, now would be ...

Former Apple engineer offers fixes for Month of Apple bugs silliness

by David Chartier (Jan 3rd, 2007)

Landon Fuller, programmer and former Apple BSD Technology Group engineer extraordinaire, has offered to try and provide fixes for the exploits that appear during this asinine Month of Apple Bugs. Landon has already posted workarounds for the QuickTime vulnerability, and he links a change the VLC ...

"The Month of Apple bugs" begins, rationality surrenders

by David Chartier (Jan 3rd, 2007)

Kevin Finisterre and someone we only know as "LMH" have launched the Month of Apple Bugs, a site they dub a 'project' with the supposed goal of publishing bugs, hacks and exploits they have found in Apple's software any and all Apple-related software. Already they have published a QuickTime exploit ...

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