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Apple releases slew of updates, fixes Zero Day bug

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 14th, 2010)

Apple has released a slew of updates in the last few days, including a security update that fixes the Zero Day bugs discovered by Charlie Miller and revealed at CanSecWest. In addition to the MacBook Pro and MobileMe Backup updates, Apple has also released: 27-inch iMac SMC Firmware Update 1.0 ...

20 zero-day security holes in Mac OS X to be revealed

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 20th, 2010)

Charles Miller, a computer security researcher who's worked with the NSA, is planning to reveal 20 zero-day security holes in Mac OS X at CanSecWest, a digital security conference, in Vancouver BC next week. A zero-day security hole is a weakness in software that neither the makers of the software ...

Zero-day exploit for QuickTime in the wild

by Robert Palmer (Sep 18th, 2008)

A hacker who found a vulnerability in QuickTime said he posted the attack code online after Apple ignored him for a month. The code exploits a flaw in QuickTime that causes a crash when a unusually-long parameter is passed along with a movie file. While it's not demonstrated, the hacker claims that ...