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05.20.04
Mac OS X hit with another security hole
Another "highly critical" hole has been found in Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system, which will allow remote system access by getting someone to visit a malicious website.
The vulnerability deals with how basic internet elements are addressed in the OS' help facility which allow arbitrary local scripts to be executed on a user's machine.
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A Real Mac OS X Trojan Horse Appears
A few weeks after the hullabaloo surrounding Intego's press release about a technique that could be used to create a Trojan horse that looked like an MP3 file (see "Mac OS X Trojan Technique: Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts" in TidBITS-726), a real Mac OS X Trojan horse has been reported to Macworld UK. The Trojan horse, which purports to be a Web installer for Microsoft Word 2004, does not use the technique previously revealed, but it's decidedly malicious. If you are foolish enough to run it, it deletes your entire Home folder.
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Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts
One of the first things I started doing almost immediately after installing Mac OS X when it first came out in March 2001, was to begin downloading and building Unix-based open source applications. I was able to build quite a few applications by performing the usual configure/make/make install sequence.
As experienced Unix users know, there are problems with this approach. In particular, it's difficult to maintain software installed in this manner, track dependencies, and uninstall software. Additionally, if you build applications from source, you might want to package the resulting binaries for distribution so others can install the package, or you can reinstall it at a later time without needing to rebuild it from source, or you can install it on multiple machines. Simply creating a tarball containing binaries and a readme file stating which other packages must be installed first is not an efficient package management strategy. There are more effective strategies. Quite a few package management systems are available on Unix and Linux systems. Mac OS X is no exception.
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Make Your Mac Easy on the Eyes
How many of you Mac users out there experienced Windows XP before you experienced Mac OS X? Several thousands if not tons more I’m sure. And many of you are tired of only being able to change your desktop picture but nothing else? If you are anything like I was when I first started using an Apple I didn’t even know that you could change anything other than your desktop backgrounds. Well, through lots of research I finally found a way to change not only my desktop backgrounds but also the color and appearance of my toolbars just as if you were using Windows XP. For those of you that are still clueless as how to do so, I am offering some assistance.
Of course, with Mac OS X„ you have to install a program for anything to do what you want it do. The software I recommend is ShapeShifter. ShapeShifter allows you to download and change Mac themes that you find on websites such as ResExcellence and MaxThemes. ShapeShifter is not a freeware product, however, you will be able to use the free demo for 30 days. The full version is only $20, so it is a great value if you want to change your theme after the 30-day trial. After downloading ShapeShifter, all you have to worry about it finding the themes and changing them out whenever you get tired of the existing theme. Just follow the simple steps below, and you will be on your way.
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Office 2004 for Mac Hits Store Shelves
Microsoft Corp. will announce on Wednesday that its Office 2004 for Mac has reached store shelves. As planned, the Redmond, Wash., software maker is releasing its Mac productivity suite in the third week of this month, following its unveiling in January during the Macworld Conference & Expo. While the standard and the student and teacher editions will be available Wednesday, Microsoft has slowed the release of the professional edition of the suite.
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"Extremely Critical" Mac OS X exploit allows remote takeover of machine
The Macintosh OS X aura of exploit invulnerability took another serious blow this week with the announcement of a "one-two" combo style attack that is easily exploitable on all current versions of OS X. This comes on top of an earlier vulnerability announcement where a deceptively-named file could fool a user into executing it and causing all sorts of mischief.
The new security advisory, released by security firm Secunia, rates the hole as "extremely critical." The exploit can be triggered by visiting a specifically-constructed website or by linking from within an e-mail. Using a directory traversal attack, a malicious site could place script files on the user's local hard drive and execute them. Privilege escalation and/or arbitrary code execution would follow.
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