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Hacker Posts OS X Bug
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Posted by: TotalRecall
A hacker has posted information on the internet instructing users how to trick Apple's SoftwareUpdate program into installing the programs of the user's choice onto others' computers:
According to the BugTraq mailing list, a hacker named Russell Harding has posted full instructions online for how to fool Apple's SoftwareUpdate feature to allowing a hacker to install a backdoor on any Mac running OS X.
The exploit takes advantage of SoftwareUpdate, Apple's software updating mechanism in OS X, which checks weekly for new updates from the company. According to Harding, who claims to have discovered the exploit, the feature downloads updates over the Web with no authentication and installs them on a system. So far, there are no patches available for this problem.
The full story is at C|Net.
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