Information Security in General

[Guest Dan]

I was amused by my us-cert email this morning about how Apple has patched

numerous vulnerabilities on their operating system. So much for the argument

that you always hear from Walt Mossberg's column in the Wall Street Journal

about how great Apples are and how Walt thinks they are so superior to PC's.

I have no big problem with Apple and I use an Ipod Mini which is nice for

travel but I do not like how they bundle Quicktime with Itunes and then

Quicktime continues to get hit with so many security vulnerabilities. I

still like Mozilla Firefox because of its extensions and support for 256 bit

AES encryption compared to IE 7 in Windows XP and maximum cipher strength of

128 bit. However, I think that Vista does indeed support the 256 bit AES

encryption with IE7 on their end. I still have not heard a compelling

argument for Opera which I tried and disliked or any other browsers. Any

Thoughts? <sly grin>

 

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#apple_releases_security_updates

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163

 

About the security content of Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2165

 

About the security content of Safari 3.1.2 for Mac OS X 10.4.11