Apple Computer on Friday (21 May) issued a patch for a security hole in Mac OS X that could have allowed hackers to take over vulnerable machines, but the company went out of its way to downplay the importance of the bug.
The vulnerability in the operating system's Help View application allows attackers to craft a special URL that will execute any application, command or script on the victim's computer. To be hit by the bug, a user would have to visit a malicious website, or be lured by e-mail into following the URL. Metro ninja mac os. The bug works on most browsers, including Internet Explorer for Mac, Mozilla and Apple's Safari.
The hole was discovered by a German techie called 'Lixlpixel,' who claims to have reported the bug to Apple on February 23rd. Play blackjack for money. It wasn't until nearly three months passed without any response from the Cupertino, Calif. computer maker that Lixlpixel went public with the hole, when discussions about it began showing up in online forums, he says. Security services firm Secunia confirmed the vulnerability and released a formal advisory on Monday. Secunia rates the bug 'extremely critical.'
In a statement issued along with the patch Friday, Apple called the hole a 'theoretical vulnerability' that never placed customers at risk.
Turbo boat fight 3000 mac os. 'Apple takes security very seriously and works quickly to address potential threats as we learn of them -- in this case, before there was any actual risk to our customers,' said Apple's senior vice president Philip Schiller. 'While no operating system can be completely immune from all security issues, Mac OS X's UNIX-based architecture has so far turned out to be much better than most.'
The bug is easy to use, and benign demonstration scripts are freely available online. But Lixlpixel said in an email interview he's not aware of anyone having wielded it maliciously. 'As far as I know there is not one single report of an exploit,' he wrote.
Mac OS X users can install the patch through Apple's Software Update service, or through Apple's support website.
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Nov 08, 2014 Remember, Macs support multiple user accounts with Mac OS X, and accordingly multiple Apple ID's can be used on a single computer with those different user accounts. For example, your personal Mac user account could use one Apple ID associated with your iCloud and iOS devices, while your spouses user account could use a completely different Apple ID that is associated with their iPhone. Apple could grow OS X into a legit secondary PC gaming platform if it opened up usage on regular PCs. I'm of the belief that there are a few major reasons why the gaming industry doesn't waste its. https://mobi-torrent.mystrikingly.com/blog/monkey-pimpster-s-game-mac-os. Because the pi-hole installer is compiled for linux, not unix. Edit: It is an interesting premise, though. Putting pi-hole locally on a machine, and referencing dns back to the same machine, would be a great way to get pi-hole in a hotel or similar situation.
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