One of the most notorious error screens out there has to be the Windows’ Blue Screen of Death, the devastating fatal error that occurs when something has gone horribly wrong with your computer. But what actually causes this error, and what can you do to make sure that it doesn’t happen again? Let’s find out.
3 April, 2008
Today, Apple released an alert fixing eleven vulnerabilities in their popular media player application, QuickTime. (Current versions of iTunes also ship with QuickTime; if your users have iTunes, they most likely have QuickTime.) These applications run on Windows and Macintosh computers, and both platforms are susceptible to exploitation of these security flaws. Apple’s alert specifies Vista and XP SP2 as the vulnerable versions of Windows.
The vulnerabilities relate to different processes in QuickTime. For example: How it opens a picture file, how it displays movie files, how it handles a movie’s media tracks, and so on. Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute any code they choose on your OS X machines, so we rate this update Critical. If you allow QuickTime, apply the update as soon as you can. Some of the vulnerabilities fixed include:
