Just half-a-day ago, Apple posted up the download links for Mac OS X security update 2008-002 on their website. The patch deals with 46 vulnerabilities in applications like AFP, Apache, AppKit, Firewall, and Podcast Producer. Affected operating systems are Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.2, and Mac OS X Server v10.5.2.
To download the security update, head over to Apple Download Section.
The latest Apple Safari 3.1 web browser is now available for download on the Apple’s website. Apple Safari 3.1 was just released on 18 March 2008 to fix a couple of vulnerabilities affecting Safari. One of the major vulnerability affecting it was that the hidden password field will be revealed when a reverse conversion is done on the Kotoeri input(Japanese character keyboard input). The other usually seen vulnerabilities are javascript injection, buffer overflow and untrusted certificate appear as trusted. See detailed description of fixed Safari’s vulnerabilities here.
Symantec Corp recently announced the new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for MAC users. This anti-virus solution is targeted at MAC users who are running the Boot Camp or Microsoft visualization software so that they can have Norton AntiVirus installed on both the MAC OS and the Windows OS. This comes at a price of $69.90 which includes the Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac and the Norton AntiVirus 2008 for Windows.
Early this month, Symantec Corp also announced the released for Norton 360 version 2.0 with newly added patent pending Browser Protection technology to protect users against drive-by-downloads. The Norton 360 is an all-in-one security solution which also includes anti-spyware, anti-phising, firewall, e-mail scanning and etc.
AVG Technologies formerly Grisoft has just released their latest AVG Anti-virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0. AVG 8.0 comes with new enhanced features to protect computers from the recent trend of web-based malware attack executed by cyber criminals. In this new version 8.0, AVG integrated LinkScanner, a real-time safe searching and surfing technologies obtained from the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs.
