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According to a Pure Hacking Blog Entry = http : //www.purehacking.com/blogs/gordon-maddern/skype-0day-vulnerabilitiy-discovered-by-pure-hacking and The Register UK = http : //www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/skype_for_mac_critical_vulnerability/ There is a 0 Day exploit that exists for Skype on MAC. Windows and Linux are unaffected. Some best practices for Skype include setting your messages to only allow from Contacts. This does not protect you from infected contacts but it might help.
Please take measures to protect yourself. We are not aware of this being exploited in the wild and as most of us might use the operating system affected, we are both personally and professionally interested.
Richard Porter --- ISC Handler on Duty
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Richard 167 Posts ISC Handler May 6th 2011 |
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May 6th 2011 9 years ago |
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The patched version is available, although not yet pushed to clients - 5.1.0.922. Use:
Skype -> Check for Updates... |
Ken 40 Posts |
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May 8th 2011 9 years ago |
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A MAC is a unique identifier for a network device, not the name of a computer.
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Ken 1 Posts |
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May 9th 2011 9 years ago |
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Put up a nice little writeup about this this morning out at http: //www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Confusion-over-Skype-for-Mac-security-issue-1239842.html. Shows the confusion between the individual that found the exploit and Skype.
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Dean 135 Posts |
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May 9th 2011 9 years ago |
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Reports are that Microsoft is going to buy Skype. The Apple problem just sorted itself out. LOL
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May 10th 2011 9 years ago |
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