Hackers are using popular programs written for cross platform use to access previously relatively secure operating systems.
Or is this a series breach of Mac security (Real Player vulnerability, iTunes vulnerability). Not really... they are dredging up a vulnerability now patched from January that has been already discussed.
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Headline really is not supported by the information on the website.
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This is not really an attempt by crackers to target non-MS based OSes... that is just a side effect.
While the cross platform application with a flaw may allow a buffer overflow, what can be accomplished on a OSX platform is not much. Secondly, the flaw in iTunes was discovered on January 10, 2005 and fixed by Apple on January 17th.
The article implies that both Linux and Mac OSX platforms are being hijacked to send spam... not true, at least as far as OSX is concerned. The exploit described does not rise to that level, cannot install or execute any applications (Mac OSX requires permission to install anything... now, with Tiger, to even download an executable).