iPhone, iPod Touch, and QuickTime security updates

Graham Cluley
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Yesterday, a standing ovation greeted Steve Jobs as he made his first public appearance since his liver transplant. Apple fans around the world (and I’m one of them) were, I’m sure, delighted to see the charismatic CEO back on stage announcing his firm’s latest product developments.

With so many feverish rumours about the possibility of The Beatles coming to iTunes (they didn’t) and the possibility of an Apple Tablet computer (no signs yet), some inevitably felt a sense of anti-climax when the main announcements from San Francisco were some new features in iTunes, a point upgrade to the iPhone OS and the revelation that the iPod Nano – and strangely not the iPod touch – was gaining a video camera.

There was some Apple news from the security side of things that emerged yesterday, though.

For instance, multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the QuickTime software for Mac OS X and Windows are…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.