[Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
[Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:22:49 -0800
One of the few arguments for keeping Macs "under the radar" and on the
desktop at many locations is a reputation for good security.
With the new Mac OS X scripting vulnerability(*), and Apple's silence on
the issue, that reputation is evaporating rapidly. If Upper IT Management
perceives that Macs are as big a security headache as Windows, they'll push
even harder to throw out the Macs.
When are we going to hear that Apple is even working on this problem? How
soon can we expect a fix?
What can Apple say to regain their reputation for secure computing?
-- Rex
(*) In case you haven't heard, Mac OS X has a serious design flaw opening
a huge security vulnerability:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1138
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/topic4055.html
Read carefully through the end of the last link. The problem is not
limited to Safari, Mail.app, or Terminal. No workaround proposed so far
closes all the exploit paths. First reported on February 20, we have no
acknowledgement or "we're working on it" from Apple.
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