Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole

An anonymous reader writes "Macworld is reporting about a new security hole in Mac OS X that can be exploited to compromise a system if the user simply visits a web site with Safari. Currently, no vendor patch is available. Secunia has a demonstration of the vulnerability and suggestions for temporary workarounds."

Comments

Those bastards!

[a_nonamiss]

Those bastards at Microsoft! When are they going to learn not to release code that's... What? It's not Microsoft? That doesn't even make sense! I thought Apple was immune from any security vulnerabilities, because they were error-proof.

Seriously, I'm not a Microsoft fanboy. As the admin for small Microsoft network, I spend hours a day cursing them. However, I'm glad that it's finally been shown that ALL OSes have problems. Windows is definitely a victim of it's own success, because there aren't a whole lot of people out there that want to spend hours and hours discovering a way to compromise BeOS and OS/2. I think Apple has done a superb job in the last year or two really setting themselves up for a major comeback, and kudos to them. My next PC will probably be an Apple.

The dark side, however, is that we're going to see more and more exploits/holes/worms for the Apple OS in the future as they gain market share. The scariest part is that there's probably more low hanging fruit in the way of exploits. Love it or hate it, Windows is pretty battle-hardened at this point.