QuickTime Has Germs. How Long Until A Fever?
It's likely that the recently announced security flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player will be expoited by hackers in just a matter of days.
The vulnerability is caused by an error in the way Apple QuickTime handles Java. It can be exploited if a user visits a malicious Web site, running a Java-enabled browser. Researchers said that includes Microsoft's Internet Explorer, along with Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari browser. The bug also affects Windows Vista through Internet Explorer 7.
Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing, said the bug also could be exploited through e-mail, either through links to malicious Web sites or by using HTML code in the e-mail that will trigger QuickTime to launch.
This vulnerability has the potential to
be very destructive as the popularity of the iPod with Apple and PC
users alike means an enormous number of people could be affected. Keep
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