Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Professional Apple Mac security researcher, Tom Ferris, has this week publicly detailed seven significant security flaws in Mac OSX operating system on his security focussed website, six of which have yet to be fixed by Apple.
On April 7, Ferris wrote: "So I have been fuzzing a few Apple OS X
applications and found some very interesting issues when fuzzing one
Application, other Applications and Services also crash and burn. For
example mdimportserver pops up a crash screen almost every few minutes.
It really gets in the way, when your trying to break other
Applications. Safari seems to be worst when it comes to parsing input
correctly. So there seems to be some problems with the claimed solid as
a rock UNIX OS. Getting Safari to crash in many different spots is
trivial, as where Firefox is very tough. I have been researching the
AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) and I wrote a very basic fuzzer and it has
found some very neat bugs."
In his latest entry on April 17, Ferris writes:
"As I previously wrote, I have been fuzzing Mac OS X applications, and
have found quite a few flaws. Below are links to some of the flaws
which I have found. All of these were reported to
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the beginning of the year. From what I have
been told, they 'will be fixed in the next security release'."
As Ferris points out in his advisories, multiple vulnerabilities exist
within the Safari 2.0.3 browser "and all prior versions which causes
the application to crash, and or may allow for an attacker to execute
arbitrary code." He also details other issues which make Preview,
Finder, QuickTime, and Safari potential attack vectors.
Apple is reportedly working to fix the security gaps.
David Bass
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