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Stories For the Week of July 17th, 2006

 

7/19/2006 - Kerio Announces Universal Mail Server for Mac OS X

Kerio Technologies today announced it has launched a Universal version of Kerio MailServer 6.2, a groupware mail server for Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger." The powerful combination of email, contacts, calendars and tasks is ideal for small and mid-sized businesses and now it can be installed on both Power PC and Intel-based Macs.
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7/17/2006 - McAfee's Sage Report

McAfee has released the first issue of their Sage Report. Included in the report is an article titled "Will the Worm Eat the Apple" by Francois Paget of McAfee Avert Labs. The article describes the history of OSX/Leap and OSX/Inqtanta. It also covers the recent "flurry" of Mac OS X / Safari-specific vulnerabilities...and potential increase of related threats on the horizon.

The article definitely complements the previous white paper, also issued by McAfee, entitled "The New Apple of Malware's Eye: Is Mac OS X the Next Windows?". However, there is no "scaremongering" here at all. Rather it is a well-written article, which raised several valid points about security on Mac OS X, and the open source community's propensity for investigating security issues and exploits.

 

 

 

7/17/2006 - Microsoft PowerPoint 0-Day Vulnerability

While there is still no 'official' ruling on whether Microsoft Office for Mac is affected, the US CERT is listing it as an affected version of the Office software.

This new vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2006-3590. According to the bulletins, "Microsoft PowerPoint contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when PowerPoint opens a specially crafted document. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted PP document, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running PowerPoint. This may also cause PowerPoint to crash."

 

 

 

 

 
 

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