Apple's Sloppy Security Moves
As high profile hacks of Apple products have surfaced again and again in recent years, Apple has been taken to task for what some say is an incompetent approach to software security. But the company's latest software slip-up seems to show something more than security incompetency: security apathy.
On Thursday, security researchers at Sophos revealed that Apple's ( AAPL - news - people ) new operating system, Snow Leopard, integrates an older version of Adobe ( ADBE - news - people ) Flash player that includes a known vulnerability that can allow attackers to install malicious software on the user's machine. Though the flaw had been patched in more recent versions of Adobe's software, installing Snow Leopard would actually expose users to the older vulnerability regardless of whether they'd previously patched the flaw.
