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Apple Releases Security Update 2003-03-24

Posted by pudge on from the lolly-lolly-lolly-get-your-security-related-update-here dept.

skeeter17 writes "Apple updates security again. According the description: 'Security Update 2002-03-24 addresses a Samba vulnerability which could allow unauthorized remote access to the host system. .... 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. ... It is recommended that all users install this Security Update.' Well! There you have it folks!" It is available via Software Update.

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  1. Macs rock. ;) by Justen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it is quite admirable that Apple is so dedicated to these security updates. Certainly there is one other operating system software company in the world that isn't as vigilant. *cough*

    I know at work, whenever an exploitation was discovered on the PC, the IT department would wait and wait. After several weeks, when problems started happening, they would issue an advisory, telling the people workarounds and what not to do and such until an update happened.

    They never did that for the marketing/communications Macs. The reasons are threefold:

    a.) there are fewer exploits in Mac OS X's old age (read: UNIX/FreeBSD/Darwin),

    b.) when there are holes, they are patched, almost always very, very promptly.

    c.) they were afraid of the Macs, anyway.

    I think the latter is the least substantial, but, nonetheless, still relevant.

    Anyway. I wanted to make a note of this. I don't see how there's much else that we can regularlly pony up in Software Update discussions...

    justen