Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
18-01-2005, 20:21
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Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by BBC
Users of Apple's music jukebox iTunes need to update the software to avoid a potential security threat.
Hackers can build malicious playlist files which could crash the program and let them seize control of the computer by inserting Trojan code.
A new version of iTunes is now available from the Apple website which solves the problem.
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Source: BBC News Online
Itunes Update avaliable: Here
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18-01-2005, 20:26
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
got as soon as opened itunes tonight.
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19-01-2005, 00:38
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
There's one to shut the blinking anti-MS brigade up for five minutes.
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19-01-2005, 04:25
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
Hmm ...I also hear that upgrading to this newer version also breaks that program that removes the DRM from the files you download.
Conspiracy theories anyone? 
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19-01-2005, 16:53
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by andygrif
There's one to shut the blinking anti-MS brigade up for five minutes.
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Why, is M$ software suddenly less buggy just because somebody else's product has a flaw in it? I don't follow your logic. 
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19-01-2005, 18:25
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by andygrif
There's one to shut the blinking anti-M$ brigade up for five minutes.
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eh? well at leased it was patched fairly quickly... unlike many similar flaws in M$ products...
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19-01-2005, 18:33
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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eh? well at leased it was patched fairly quickly... unlike many similar flaws in M$ products...
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 Apple did take two months to fix a TCP/IP flaw in Mac OSX a couple of years ago. MS aren't the only one.
Back on topic. I have installed the new itunes on all the PCs I use it on. Oddly, it was only picked up by software update on two of the macs in the lab. iTunes is installed on all four..
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19-01-2005, 18:59
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
As a apple fan i would like to point out Apple are SLOWER than Microsoft at updating flaws. Microsoft usually are very quick. It has been months since 4.7 was released and only now has it been mentioned. Apple didnt inform anyone about this so they could add support for the iPod shuffle at the same time. Apple do screw their fans over from time to time
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20-01-2005, 00:32
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by Chris T
Why, is M$ software suddenly less buggy just because somebody else's product has a flaw in it? I don't follow your logic. |
I wouldn't expect a Mac user to follow it 
Go and update your machine
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20-01-2005, 00:44
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by Damien
As a apple fan i would like to point out Apple are SLOWER than Microsoft at updating flaws. Microsoft usually are very quick. It has been months since 4.7 was released and only now has it been mentioned. Apple didnt inform anyone about this so they could add support for the iPod shuffle at the same time. Apple do screw their fans over from time to time
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Itunes 4.7 may have been out for months, but the problem was only discovered recently (by an independent party (Sean de Regge)). Try to find a reference to this vulnerability that is more than a week old...
Apple were actually quite quick to bring out a patch.
I agree though. Apple do screw their customers, but it's mostly on price imo 
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20-01-2005, 10:30
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by andygrif
There's one to shut the blinking anti-MS brigade up for five minutes.
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/me scratches head
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20-01-2005, 10:43
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Re: Hacker threat to Apple's iTunes
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Originally Posted by andygrif
I wouldn't expect a Mac user to follow it
Go and update your machine |
I will, some time when I don't need the phone line for a couple of hours - there's a 20mb security update waiting for me as well. Wretched dial up 
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