Fresh vulnerabilities plague QuickTime, Gmail

Google patches pronto; Month of Apple Bugs starts with a bang By Matthew Broersma January 02, 2007 A cross-site scripting vulnerability revealed in Google's Gmail was swiftly patched ove the holiday weekend, while the opening salvo in January's Month of Apple Bugs proves to be significant for both Mac and Windows users. Apple's QuickTime software has a highly serious bug that could leave Windows and Mac users open to attacks by malicious Web sites, according to a project aimed at disclosing Apple bugs throughout January. The QuickTime flaw launches the Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB), which follows on from efforts such as the Month of Kernel Bugs and the Month of Browser Bugs. The bug was discovered by LMH, a MOAB organizer who hasn't disclosed his name. The flaw affects any Windows or Mac OS X bug with QuickTime Player Version 7.1.3 installed; previous versions are also probably vulnerable. The problem lies in the way QuickTime handles addresses beginning with "rtsp://", and can be exploited to create a stack-based buffer overflow using HTML, JavaScript or a QTL file, LMH wrote. Read on -->Link

02 Jan 2007 by J.TECH Recalls & Mishaps Permalink

Fallout From AOL's Data Leak Just Beginning

The fallout from AOL's unintended release of personal search data of 658,000 subscribers could include fines, lawsuits, and changes in law and policy regarding search queries. By K.C. Jones TechWeb Aug 9, 2006 AOL's release of subscribers' search data is an unprecedented event that could spark a change in Internet privacy rules or it could spark a series of lawsuits, according to experts. "A lot of lawyers are going to be looking at the damages here," said Parry Aftab, Executive Director of wiredsafety.org, which claims to be the world's largest Internet safety and help group. "What were they thinking?" Andrew Weinstein, AOL spokesperson, said during an interview Wednesday that the company's research team ignored internal policies by deciding to publish search terms on an open Web site designed to help academics. They did not vet their plan through AOL's privacy team, he said. They attached the information to user identification numbers intended to protect subscribers' anonymity. Some users had searched their own names, telephone numbers and other information that, when combined, can be used to identify them. Though Weinstein said that AOL did not violate its own privacy policy or federal laws prohibiting disclosure of private information to third parties, lawyers and privacy advocates disagreed. Read on -->Link

10 Aug 2006 by J.TECH Recalls & Mishaps Permalink

'Bitchin' MacInteltoshes get too hot

Apple forgot to apply thermal grease properly By Nick Farrell: Monday 01 May 2006 APPLE'S new range of MacBooks, dubbed by Steve Jobs as 'bitchin' may be getting too hot because the outfit forgot to put enough thermal grease in the right places. According to Interrupting Moss from Somethingawful, here, it takes a slight misapplication of thermal grease on a MacBook Pro to make the temperatures skyrocket. When he took the back off his MacBook Pro he found that was just what the assembly teams at Apple had done. On the forums he shows before and after pictures and measures the temperature gauges to prove it. He scrapped off Apple's attempt at thermal greasing and reapplied the paste correctly. Now his laptop does not get as hot as it used too. Read on -->Link Comment: It's not the thermal grease folks -- it's the dahm crappy Intel chips that run too hot in the first place. Trying to pass the blame to the assembly team at apple is misleading. They have been applying the same amount of grease to all their notebooks the same way for years. They just needed to add more to control the overly hot Intel chips and it's obvious the brand of grease they are using is not strong enough for these scorching chips. So let's get real here. This is one example of the many negative consequences that we are starting to see from the Apple and Intel Partnership and there is more to come.

01 May 2006 by J.TECH Recalls & Mishaps Permalink

Intel's First Dual-Core Itanium Delayed

By David Needle October 24, 2005 In a major embarrassment to the world's biggest chipmaker, Intel plans to delay the release of new versions of its ballyhooed Itanium processor until next year. An Intel spokesman said Montecito, its first dual-core Itanium will ship in volume by the middle of 2006, instead of in the first quarter, as earlier announcements indicated. The release of several successive versions of Itanium also have been pushed back. Read on -->Link Comment: You have to hand it to Intel, they have made CPU problems and delays an art form. It's bad enough they have been falling behind in this area. But this is now getting ridiculous. Problems after problems is not a way to repair an already tarnished reputation. I guess the bigger you are the harder you fall and the more difficult it is to get up. If they continue this trend, it will be more difficult for them to blame AMD or anyone else for their failings. And no amount of Marketing Hype will help them win back the customers they are currently losing.

24 Oct 2005 by J.TECH Recalls & Mishaps Permalink

Intel to be warned on `unfair' practice

By The Asahi Shimbun February 7,2005 The Fair Trade Commission plans to warn the Japanese unit of global semiconductor giant Intel Corp. to stop business practices that the watchdog considers anti-competitive, sources close to the commission said. Intel Japan K.K. is suspected of giving rebates to buyers of its central processing units (CPU) on condition that the manufacturers refrain from purchasing products of Intel rivals. The FTC apparently decided the actions by the company, which dominates the CPU market for personal computers, were intended to shut out rival products, thereby limiting fair competition in violation of the Anti-Monopoly Law, sources said. Read on -->Link

07 Feb 2005 by J.TECH Recalls & Mishaps Permalink

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