One focus of the patch is to fix eight vulnerabilities in the way Mac OS X handles disk images, files that when opened appear as a drive within the Macintosh Finder. Mounting a malicious image may lead to an error and could provide a means for an...
There's a buffer overflow flaw in Finder which could allow an attacker to take control of a system by "enticing a user into mounting a malicious disk image", or tricking someone into enabling local access of a file supposedly stored on a remote...
Security bulletin MS06-001, originally scheduled for Tuesday, is the first security bulletin of this year and fixes a vulnerability in the way Windows renders Windows Meta File (WMF) images. Also, hackers have been quick to craft tools which make...
Podcasting is a recent internet phenomenon which takes its name from Apple's iPod digital audio player. A number of smaller changes will involve user interface changes, the ability to save space by deleting attachments from stored email, and an...
Means a computerised simulation of a real environment using three dimensional images or graphics. A website is identified by the host name part of the URL and is made up of a related collection of content or files usually in HTML hypertext...
The US computer emergency response team (US-Cert) issued an alert last week, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files - for Macs, the '.dmg' file format. A disk image file is a digital representation of the contents...