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Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw

Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flawWhen do you guys get to use your Apple stuff?It seems to me that you have to spend all of your time patching it. Doesn't Apple test stuff before they stick the big price tag on it? :(RE: Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base...

Tags: Workstations, Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw, firmware flaw, Apple Inc., AirPort Extreme Base Station, firmware

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

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News to know: Windows 7; FCC; Census IT; HDMI; MacBook mystery; Fave Windows programs

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7 might go to pieces Michael Krigsman: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau George Ou: HDMI survival guide...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., HDMI, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Rootkits, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Apple's week of patching: Camera compatibility flaw patched

Apple on Friday shipped a security update for Aperture 2, iPhoto 7.1.2 with iLife Support 8.2. Here's what Apple had to say in an advisory about CVE-2008-0987: Viewing a maliciously crafted image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: ...

Tags: Apple Inc., Security Update, Camera, Flaw, Security Administration, Patches, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Apple plugs Airport Extreme Base Station firmware flaw

Apple has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its Airport Extreme Base Station firmware. In an advisory Wednesday Apple said firmware version 7.3.1 patches a vulnerability where a "maliciously crafted AFP request may lead to a denial of service." Here's the description for...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Agence France-Presse, Apple Inc., Firmware, Flaw, Ethernet, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Apple patches AirPort Extreme base station

Apple has released a firmware upgrade to fix a remotely exploitable security issue in the AirPort Extreme Base Station. The flaw, publicly known since April, could allow remote attackers  to adversely affect network performance," Apple said in an advisory. The skinny (CVE-2007-2242): A...

Tags: IPv6, Network, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Cracked

Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA CrackedReal danger, mitigating factors and solution.The WPA algorithm itself is not flaw. The article states that the weakness comes from the way it is initialized on preconfigured Wifi access points, because the WPA key is generated from the 48-bit IEEE MAC address, which is all but...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Network security, WPA, Wi-Fi, MAC address, IEEE MAC address, IEEE, password

Discussion threads 2005-12-22