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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

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.

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'Month of Apple Bugs' #1 also hits Windows

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LMH's 'Month of Apple Bugs' has kicked off with a description of a flaw in QuickTime's rtsp:// (Real Time Streaming Protocol) handler that allows the execution of arbitrary code.

According to the description, the flaw has been exploited in the Mac OS X and Windows versions of QuickTime 7.1.3 and "Previous versions should be vulnerable as well."

A specially-crafted URL contained within HTML, JavaScript or a QTL file can be used to take advantage of the flaw. A proof-of-concept is available via the above link.

Given that this is Yet Another Buffer Overflow, we wouldn't expect it too be particularly difficult for Apple to fix, but the advisory concludes that for now "The only potential workaround would be to disable the rtsp:// URL handler, uninstalling Quicktime or simply live with the feeling of being a potential target for pwnage."

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