Second Mac OS X worm spreads via Bluetooth vulnerability.SophosLabs, have issued protection against a second worm worm, common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, or the flatworms, are the most primitive; they are generally small and flat-bodied and include the free-living planarians (of for Mac OS X. The new worm, called Inqtana-A, spreads between Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh computers via a Bluetooth A wireless personal area network (WPAN) standard for short-range transmission of digital voice and data. Bluetooth is widely used for hands-free cellphone operation, including wireless headsets and connecting to Bluetooth-enabled automobiles that turn the car's audio system into a vulnerability and has appeared within days of the discovery of the first ever real virus for Mac OS X. The Inqtana worm exploits a vulnerability (known as CAN-2005-1333) to spread itself to other vulnerable Mac OS X computers, but Apple released a patch against the vulnerability in mid 2005, meaning the worm is highly unlikely to spread successfully. However, Sophos is urging users of Mac OS X to keep their software updated against the latest security vulnerabilities in Apple's code Comment. "If s disturbing to see a second worm for Mac OS X so soon after the first, but it should be remembered that this is only two compared to well over 100,000 viruses for Microsoft operating systems The following is a list of Microsoft operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. Before Windows
Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. ." www.sophos.com |
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