New Patch Issued to Fix Problems With OS X

Apple has issued a new patch for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to fix a problem that users were reporting with application-compaitibility with the original fix issued last week. The new patch is designed to alleviate problems with the Rosetta technology in Snow Leopard. The original version of the huge...

Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery

Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery Security researcher Charlie Miller is quite well known for his works on Apple products. Today he has come up with a very interesting way to hack the MacBook using the battery. Laptop battery contains its own monitoring circuit which reports the...

Mac camera image capture

Added: 07/14/2011 Background This tool attempts to retrieve an image file captured by an iSight camera such as the one built into a MacBook. Limitations A connection to the target is required to run this tool. Platforms Mac OS X...

Apple Safari and Internet Explorer 8 Go Down at Pwn2Own, iPhone Up Next

VANCOUVER–On the first day of the Pwn2Own contest here, contestants were able to take down both Safari on Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. None of the researchers decided to try their hand against Google Chrome, however, so that browser was the only one still standing after day one...

CanSecWest

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Another smaller, regional hacking show, the CanSecWest Applied Security Conference started to get broader attention after organizers began offering prizes for compromising the security of popular platforms like the Apple MacBook and iPhone. Now in its 11th year...

Apple Safari Still Easiest to Hack

For the third year in a row, security researcher Charlie Miller successfully compromised a fully patched MacBook Pro machine with a Safari vulnerability and exploit. Despite Apple’s best efforts at making it difficult to exploit the Mac OS X, Miller’s exploits show that Safari is still easy...

Mandriva Update for initscripts MDVA-2010:111 (initscripts)

Check for the Version of initscripts OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for initscripts MDVA-2010:111 initscripts Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

Article Friendly SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

All three major Web browsers — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari — failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. A security researcher named “Nils” he declined to provide his full name performed a clean drive-by download attack...

Apple Airport Extreme fails to properly process 802.11 frames

Overview A vulnerability exists in the Apple AirPort Extreme wireless driver that may allow an attacker to crash a vulnerable system. Description The Apple AirPort Extreme adapter is an 802.11g compatible wireless adapter used in Apple OS X laptops and desktops. A flaw exists in the way AirPort...