http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22961 By Nick Farrell 03 May 2005 FOR A LONG time ignored by hackers, Apple's iTune popularity is meaning that the operating system is starting to attract the interest of hackers. According to a survey released on Easter Monday, in the Bulgarian Orthodox calendar, by the SANS institute, hackers are still making hay on VoleWare, but Apple products are starting to become tempting. Hacks of iTunes were an interesting feature of the first three months of 2005, says SANS, along with attacks on RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Nullsoft's Winamp. There more attempts to take on anti-virus software with Symantec, F-Secure, TrendMicro and McAfee as targets. Hackers continued to poke new holes in Microsoft Windows, although SANS seems to think that is becoming harder as more Windows users agreed to receive security upgrades automatically. So instead, hackers are starting to try and take advantage of other software programs that might not be patched as frequently, the survey said. The complete list can be found here [1]. µ [1] http://www.sans.org/top20/Q1-2005update _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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