Apple Security Advisory 2012-02-01-1 – Apple has addressed 48 security vulnerabilities.
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The Bastille Hardening program locks down an operating system, configuring the system for increased security. It currently supports Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise, SuSE, SuSE Enterprise, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo, HP-UX, and Apple’s Mac OS X.
WOL-E is a suite of tools for the Wake on LAN feature of network attached computers, this is now enabled by default on many Apple computers. These tools include bruteforcing the MAC address to wake up clients, sniffing WOL attempts and passwords, scanning for Apple devices and more.
Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-05 – This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple QuickTime Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within how the application decodes video samples encoded with the RLE codec.
Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-04 – This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple QuickTime.
Zero Day Initiative Advisory 11-340 – This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Quicktime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within how the application parses font names embedded within an atom.
RT Wikileak's Assange warns of Apple iTunes spy portal Computerworld (blog) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says there's “flaw” in iTunes. He claims this flaw is used by those shady security/surveillance firms to take over people's computers
Secunia Security Advisory – A weakness has been reported in Apple iTunes, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.
Apple Security Advisory 2011-11-10-1 – The new iOS 5.0.1 software update addresses multiple vulnerabilities.
Secunia Security Advisory – Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple iOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information, conduct spoofing attacks, and compromise a user’s device.