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Apple patches OS X
Apple patches OS X
Robert Vamosi Former Editor
As CNET's former resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security.
Apple has in its popular Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther) and 10.4.2 (Tiger) operating systems. Only a few of the flaws are considered critical, such as those involving AppKit and the Web browser Safari. Attacks affecting these apps could allow a remote attacker to run malicious code on a vulnerable system. Other critical flaws that could also allow remote attacks, such as those affecting Apache 2, are not seen as critical, since Apple did not enable this feature by default.