June 20, 2007 1:51 PM PDT
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.10 with security update
Apple today announced Mac OS X 10.4.10 along with a new security update. The updated version 10.4.10 includes fixes for Bluetooth and USB connections, plus several minor enhancements of the operating system. The security update, the sixth in what appears to be a monthly release cycle for 2007, addresses a vulnerability in the IPv6 networking protocol. It affects users of Mac OS X 10.4 and later, and is available from within Mac OS X via the Software Update pane in System Preferences, or from Apple's software downloads page.
Patch for Networking
This patch affects users of Mac OS X v10.4.x, and address the vulnerability detailed within CVE-2007-2242. Successful exploitation could lead to remote denial of service attacks.
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market and having millions of users)
-improving security BEFORE any one in the real world is affected.
-unlike some other large software company that fixes their gaping
holes after many have been affected...all due to poor design from
the ground up...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6041091.html?tag=nl
Hey all os's have problems just don't make it sound like the mac is the only os out there without ever being targetted. Also I was wondering are their more flaws now? maybe someone out there knows.
has been fixed and my iMac doesn't blow me away when at its
lowest volume.
writer. It isn't, so it hasn't. Simple as that.
Windows *is* the market.
(I use a Mac. But if its marketshare got to the point where it was
targeted, I'd switch to something even less popular.)
obscurity) about Macs and your logic is completely flawed.
There are 16-20 million Mac users out there, the OS Is not
obscure. Hackers love infamy, wouldn't one want to be the first
to actually create and spread a virus on such a target?
Even a better example-
Windows had over a 100,000 viruses on it last year. With Macs
having (let's say) 5% of the market share, wouldn't it also have
5% of the viruses? = 5,000 viruses?
BUT the Mac has ZERO viruses. This after 6 years on the
market. You must understand this feat.
How is this possible? The OS design is superior... period.
what about the fact that they are no 64bit versions yet of OneCare?
so I would chalk up security and stability to the MAC OSX; linux as well has had a better track record than Windows.
so M$ fanboys, what is your point?
- Arrogance KILLS
- by kojacked April 24, 2008 5:55 AM PDT
- I still can't fathom of absolutely asinine the Apple fanbois continue to be with their "perfect" OS and their god-like Steve Jobs.
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- Reality check
- by fixitjc June 25, 2007 5:39 AM PDT
- The silliness goes on on both sides... mine is bigger, better,
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(11 Comments)If you want to think that the lack of active exploits on known flaws in the Mac or it ancillary apps like Safari is due to it's superiority by all means go ahead. But for the sake of all of the moms and pops out their who know no better than to drink the Kool-Aid you are pouring please shut the hell up!
You're baseless opinions are leading people to falsely believe that Apple can do not wrong and that are safer on Apple products. In reality no OS, no software is truly safe as it is written by people like you -- imperfect. If the coders behind Apple's software are as arrogant as you Apple fanbois are it's almost a certainty that as soon as the Mac gets more eyeballs on it (and interest to exploit it) that it will be just like the Windows world; under constant attack because that's where all the money is.
There's nothing wrong with propagating the idea of safe computing this day and age with so many crooks out there looking to steal you blind all within the comfort of their own homes. Do you see me here bragging about Windows superiority? No; because I know the PC, like the Mac is not perfect. We should all be targeting the real enemy here; the spammers, scammers, and tards out there that get their kicks writing viruses.
If you think about it now that Safari is on Windows and getting in front of many more eyeballs it's only a matter of time before exploits found on the Windows version translate directly over to the Mac. Even if the Mac never gains more market share it will still become more targeted through exploits in Safari. And don't try and mitigate this with "it's BETA stupid". Apply fanbois say the same negative things of any Microsoft product out in beta. The fact that it?s been released and people can install it means they have to be careful ? period.
Oh and the simple math I see used hear in suggesting that the percent of exploits should equal the percent of market share has got to be the stupidest thing I've heard from the Mac fanboi camp yet. Why invest in robbing the mini-mart down the street when you can rob the big bank in town and get so much more money? It's simple -- what idiot would invest the time to exploit the Mac to reach it's tiny user base when they can exploit millions more on Windows. C'mon, who puts their money down on a looser, really?
prettier,etc. It seems that the ones that make the biggest noise
know the least and still haven't figured out how to use spell
check yet.
I liked the little story of the stores but it was incomplete.
Yes it is more profitable to go after the big bank especially when
all the doors are open and even off the hinges. The little store
down the street has at-least learned to close the doors although
hasn't figured out how to lock them yet.
OS's are never going to be completely secure. Although most
malware is now created for commercial reasons there are still
those who break into systems for bragging rights and even they
haven't breached the Mac OS in any significant numbers. What a
great way to shut up the Fan-Boys with some showy incursion
into OS X.
People break into things they are familiar with and since most
hackers use Windows it is easier fo exploit what they know.
We all have our preferences and you won't change the minds of
zealots.