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| | | | | Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities. | |
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| | | | | Application and Infrastructure Security Engineering | |
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| | | | | Today a local privilege escalation vulnerability was disclosed in this blog post. It describes a vulnerability in IOBluetoothFamily kernel extension (IOKit is a never-ending hole of security vulnerabilities). Mavericks and most probably all previous versions are vulnerable but not Yosemite. The reason for this is that Apple silently patched the bug in Yosemite. This is not a new practice, where Apple patches bugs in the latest and newly released OS X version and doesn't care about older versions. | |
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| | | With the launch of BBC iPlayer for iPhones it seems they've let slip a little extra "feature". You can now download programs from BBC iPlayer without DRM in a well encoded MP4 format. How? Easy. First of all, install User Agent Switch for Firefox and setup the iPhone user-agent: Description: iPhone User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) App Version: Version/3. | ||