NEWS: MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm
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Found on: CNET.com
A worm that exploits a security hole in Apple's QuickTime caused some major chaos for my MySpace and it's millions of users over the weekend, now Myspace wants Apple to fix the problem.
CNET post:
MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site.
The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people's MySpace profiles. The worm spread because of QuickTime's support for JavaScript code, experts have said.
Found on: CNET.com
A worm that exploits a security hole in Apple's QuickTime caused some major chaos for my MySpace and it's millions of users over the weekend, now Myspace wants Apple to fix the problem.CNET post:
MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site.
The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people's MySpace profiles. The worm spread because of QuickTime's support for JavaScript code, experts have said.
Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer at MySpace, said in an e-mail statement Tuesday.
"When we learned about an issue that exploits a feature in QuickTime and unfortunately targets MySpace users, we immediately contacted Apple to engineer a fix,"
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