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Amdahl

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Jul 28, 2004
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http://www.infobyte.com.ar.nyud.net/demo/evilgrade.htm

This is a cached link to a screen-movie that shows a hacker running their tool to fool a DNS server into thinking the hacker is the Java update server. Then, he runs the Java updater manually in Windows 2000, and takes over the computer.

The tool can do the same for OS X, iTunes, Winzip, Java, Winamp, Notebook, OpenOffice, and more. Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/pwning_security_updates/

Now, why has Apple still not got their updates out? The world is starting to wonder: http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/07/28/2311240.shtml
 

Daveoc64

macrumors 601
Jan 16, 2008
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Bristol, UK
This is pretty worrying.

All of those other companies managed to get a fix out. Apple really needs to keep up if it is to be taken seriously by corporations with servers.
 
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