{"id":43,"date":"2006-05-01T23:28:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/05\/01\/latest-on-os-x-research\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T13:53:01","slug":"latest-on-os-x-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/05\/01\/latest-on-os-x-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest on OS X research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a54\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Ferris, noted security researcher, has listed a series of new bugs to come out for OS X.  it&#8217;s an interesting mixture of bugs which consists of mostly Heap Overflows.  This is scary for those who would like to think that their OS X machine is 100% safe from malware.  The media doesn&#8217;t always help with alarmist reactions and Apple doesn&#8217;t help much with it&#8217;s defensive posture.  The truth, as is almost always the case, lies in the parallax of the two sources.  OS X has received a lot more attention these days and thus more bugs have been found.  While the technical underpinnings of OS X *are* in fact more solid then Windows it doesn&#8217;t mean that the OS is &#8220;virus free&#8221; or &#8220;immune from hackers\/crackers\/etc&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ferris, noted security researcher, has listed a series of new bugs to come out for OS X. it&#8217;s an interesting mixture of bugs which consists of mostly Heap Overflows. This is scary for those who would like to think that their OS X machine is 100% safe from malware. The media doesn&#8217;t always help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerabilities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}