See? Apple aren’t “hacker proof” as many mac users will have you believe. Being an IT professional, I’m not dumb enough to assume an OS is free from holes and security flaws, I guess it’s just a shame that Mac fan-boys don’t see the potential problem of their blind trust. Back on topic, a flaw has been revealed in quicktime (affecting both OSX and Windows) that allows a hacker to gain control of the machine it’s running on.

A quote on C|net News (the source of this article) details that an apple spokeswoman stated “Apple takes security very seriously and has a great track record of addressing potential vulnerabilities before they can affect users,”. Does that mean they’re good at supporting their product, or just good at not telling people about the bugs? Hmm, interesting spin.

Also, the security hole means that people with Macs and safari (or firefox) are more likely to be subject to the hack than windows users because quicktime is pre-installed with the OS. This is what happens when your OS becomes popular - the idea of it being targeted by hackers becomes more attractive. This in turn creates more publicity to find security holes, that weren’t known of before because of the lack of enthusiasm to find them. Oh it’s all too obvious… [SHOW ME]