Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug. Security researchers November 9 warned that Apple’s OS X contains a critical vulnerability that attackers could use to hijack Macs running the older Leopard version of the operating system. Although Leopard was supplanted by the new Snow Leopard operating system more than 1 year ago, the older version still accounts for about a third of all installations of Mac OS X.
The bug is a variation of one Apple patched last August in iOS. The flaw was used to “jailbreak” iOS 4 devices, and it could also be exploited to plant malware or commandeer an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. According to Core Security Technologies, which issued an advisory November 8, Apple has wrapped up work on a patch.
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9195680/Researchers_sound_alarm_over_crit%20ical_Mac_OS_X_bug
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