Apple patches 40 different security holes?
Good grief...
Apple on Wednesday released an update to fix at least 40 different security holes in computers powered by its Mac OS X operating system and other software, including a just-in-time update to fix a dangerous vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player that is being rather heavily exploited at the moment in Microsoft Windows versions of the player.
The Flash update brings the Mac version of the Flash Player up to the latest 9.0.124.0 version, which protects users against a proliferating number of sites using vulnerabilities in older Flash versions to install malicious software on exposed computers. While the attackers are so far delivering viral payloads designed exclusively for Microsoft Windows systems, the researcher who discovered the method by which the flaw is being attacked warned that the vulnerability could be similarly exploited on any operating system for which Flash is available, including Mac OS X.
At least seven of the security issues patches in Apple's update involve flaws in image file formats that could be exploited merely by convincing a Mac user to click on a tainted link or view a specially-crafted malicious image.
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