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Archives => 2007 => Topic started by: gunug on October 15, 2007, 08:52:47 AM

Title: MAC OS "might" have URI vulnerablities!
Post by: gunug on October 15, 2007, 08:52:47 AM

Microsoft is apparently rushing to patch Windows to deal with URI vulnerabilities.  Uniform Resource Identifiers are apparently used to launch programs from web browsers and a guy named Nathan McFeters thinks "Other" Unix based OS's might have the same problems:

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In fact, Nathan McFeters, one of the researchers who has been studying the problem most closely says he hopes to present more details on how other Unix-based operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X may also be susceptible to what are known as URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol handler flaws at the Toorcon hacking conference, being held next week in San Diego.

-- http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/15/...I-issues_1.html

Who knew that Windows was Unix based?

Title: MAC OS "might" have URI vulnerablities!
Post by: tacit on October 15, 2007, 11:32:25 AM

QUOTE(gunug @ Oct 15 2007, 01:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Who knew that Windows was Unix based?

It's not. It's just poor choice of words on the part of the article's author. There's no Unix in Windows.

Title: MAC OS "might" have URI vulnerablities!
Post by: gunug on October 15, 2007, 04:10:52 PM

Well, I had meant to put a smiley on that line!  Oh, well!