A Mac gets whacked, a second survives

A Mac gets whacked, a second survives
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-04-21

Vancouver, CANADA -- Shane Macaulay strode into the conference hall at the CanSecWest conference on Friday afternoon, balancing a MacBook Pro on his palm and making a beeline for the table displaying two more of the silver laptops.

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A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2007-04-23
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Re: A Mac gets whacked, a second survives 2007-04-23
Robert Lemos

As explained in the article, while the exploit requires some user interaction (just clicking on a Web link) that's a standard method of attack seen often on the Windows platform. Thus, it was considered a valid attack.

As for the Java angle, I did some research into that today and Dai Zovi expanded on it. It's actually a QuickTime issue and could affect Windows as well. See the news brief on our site.

-R

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