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Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole 559

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:25AM from the bend-over-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Macworld is reporting about a new security hole in Mac OS X that can be exploited to compromise a system if the user simply visits a web site with Safari. Currently, no vendor patch is available. Secunia has a demonstration of the vulnerability and suggestions for temporary workarounds."

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I guess the H4x0rs (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:27AM (#14767721)

.. finally learned how to "Think Different".

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The malicious website in question? (Score:1, Funny)

by breckinshire ( 891764 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:28AM (#14767739) Homepage

..... www.internetexplorer.com

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Transcript of recent telephone phone conversation (Score:4, Funny)

by TripMaster Monkey ( 862126 ) * writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:31AM (#14767769)

*RING*

Jobs: Hello?

Gates: BWAHAHAHAHA! PWNED!!!!

Jobs: Goddamnit, Bill, I told you to stop calling!

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Re:Good news (Score:4, Funny)

by ObsessiveMathsFreak ( 773371 ) writes: <obsessivemathsfreak AT eircom DOT net> on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:33AM (#14767778) Homepage Journal

It's inevitable though that there will be a major OSX infection, so it's time for Mac users to get more conscious of this stuff.

"Pshaw! OS X will seamlessly update my applications wirelessly while I brew and sip my moca-latte, all with real time AJAX and SOAP requests over https with COCA SVG Widget bindings.

Mac users do not suffer from the contagions of the common masses."

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Mac users: welcome to 2001 (Score:5, Funny)

by Kohath ( 38547 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:36AM (#14767833)

MS Windows users have had this for 5 years. Congrats to Apple for finally catching up to us.

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Interesting (Score:5, Funny)

by jayhawk88 ( 160512 ) writes: <jayhawk88@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:44AM (#14767917)

But I missed the part in the article where this can all be blamed on Microsoft, can someone please help me out?

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Security fix out allready! (Score:2, Funny)

by tpgp ( 48001 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:45AM (#14767935) Homepage

I'd expect a security update that addresses this *very* soon. This is a bad one.

Security fix has been out for some time.

Available here [ubuntu.com]

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Tried on Windows (Score:4, Funny)

by feranick ( 858651 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:47AM (#14767948)

I am envious, the exploit doesn't work on my windows box. If I try to run the proof of concept file, it says it's not a movie file. Damn it!

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At least there's one way.. (Score:3, Funny)

by bennomatic ( 691188 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:49AM (#14767964) Homepage

...in which Microsoft is taking the lead and Apple is copying them.

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Re:Odd... (Score:5, Funny)

by rylin ( 688457 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:53AM (#14767997)

http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]

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Re:OS X 10.4.5 (Score:2, Funny)

by ObiWonKanblomi ( 320618 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @11:56AM (#14768028) Journal

How does something happily execute? Either it executes or doesn't execute. I swear, people wanting to through in their adverbs.

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Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @12:04PM (#14768125)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Re:OS X 10.4.5 (Score:5, Funny)

by krbvroc1 ( 725200 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @12:12PM (#14768201)

As my long slender finger eagerly depressed the mouse button, I waited with anticipation for the tell tale glow that my computer was performing as I trusted it would. I could hear the sturdy heads of the hard disk chatter as my user data was happily sent to digital heaven. It was not until later that day when I again turned to my computer for comfort that I realize the significance of was had transpired earlier.

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Party-time at Symantec Corp (Score:2, Funny)

by AndroidCat ( 229562 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @12:14PM (#14768224) Homepage

"Norton AntiVirus for Machintosh sales are finally going to take off! Yessss!"

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My credit card was "compromised" while using Safar (Score:5, Funny)

by bobdotorg ( 598873 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @12:30PM (#14768387)

My credit card has been repeatedly comprimised while using Safari.

Most recently, a $300 charge appeared on my statement after visiting this page. [apple.com]

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I'm stunned.... (Score:3, Funny)

by sgant ( 178166 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @12:59PM (#14768685) Homepage Journal

I went to a story about an OSX security hole and a Risk game broke out!

That's the furthest away from the topic in the shortest amount of time I've ever seen. Bravo!

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Re:Earth to Apple: THERE ARE NO SAFE FILES! (Score:2, Funny)

by Pray_4_Mojo ( 13485 ) writes: <(redrobot) (at) (christopherwilson.net)> on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @01:02PM (#14768717) Homepage Journal

You guys should know the holy trinity by now:

Easy
Secure
Windows

Pick Any Two.

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Re:System should be safe (Score:2, Funny)

by cortana ( 588495 ) writes: <sam@robot s . org.uk> on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @02:07PM (#14769366) Homepage

You have a user called *.* on your machine?

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Re:Also works in Mail.app (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @02:11PM (#14769397)

You can send this same shell script masquerading as a JPG file and shown as such by Mail.app, and it gets executed as soon as it is clicked/viewed in Mail.app

So should we nickname it Outlook.app now?
... must ... stop ... .jpg.vbs ... flashbacks ...

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Re:Transcript of recent telephone phone conversati (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @03:02PM (#14769914)

On behalf of slashdot, please stop posting. You are a fucking annoyance, you're not funny, you're not insightful, and knowing you've posted a comment is like hitting my dick into a pile of broken glass with a pick axe.

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Re:that tears it! (Score:3, Funny)

by Psykechan ( 255694 ) writes: on Tuesday February 21, 2006 @05:59PM (#14771559)

I'm going to delete Calculator.app on all of my Macs. That way I can go back to living with no malware whatsowhoever.

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Re:Also works in Mail.app (Score:2, Funny)

by Arandir ( 19206 ) writes: on Wednesday February 22, 2006 @02:46PM (#14778297) Homepage Journal

People would take you more seriously if you didn't spit so much when you talk...

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