Tag: osxsecurity

Ina Fried, staff writer for CNET News.com, has written an article today on the state of security of Mac OS X and what Apple is doing or not doing about it. “In general, the Mac operating system has seen far fewer bugs than its Windows counterpart,” writes Fried.

In his latest column for the Baltimore Sun, David Zeiler takes a look at the current state of virus problems for Windows and Mac users. Is Mac OS X really more secure, or are hackers simply ignoring the Mac and focusing on Windows machines?

Apple today released version 2.0 of its Security Update 2003-06-09, which addresses a potential security issue when the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is used to reshare a Network File System (NFS) mount. The update also addresses a situation where LDAP bind authentication requests may be improperly sent when using Kerberos authentication.

Apple today released Security Update 2003-06-09, which “addresses a potential security issue when the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is used to reshare a Network File System (NFS) mount. This update also addresses a situation where LDAP bind authentication requests may be improperly sent when using Kerberos authentication.” The update is available via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane.

Apple today released Security Update 2003-03-24 for Mac OS X 10.2.4 via the Software Update preference panel. It “addresses a Samba vulnerability which could allow unauthorized remote access to the host system. The built-in Windows file sharing is based on the open source technology called Samba and is off by default in Mac OS X. OpenSSL is also updated to address an issue in which RSA private keys can be compromised when communicating over LANs, Internet2/Abilene, and interprocess communication on local machine.