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Apple Computing Products:
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Possible Outlook vulnerability
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1928749" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Fortunately, this is a Microsoft-only vulnerability. It goes back to the difference in security philosophies between Windows and MacOS. Windows allows random code to run within certain applications, like their e-mail program. Apple has always avoided such things for security reasons. That's why malicious e-mails have always been a very large problem for Windows and no problem whatsoever on the Mac.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-outlook-zero-day-vulnerability-allowing-ntlm-credential-theft" target="_blank">https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-outlook-zero-day-vulnerability-allowing-ntlm-credential-theft</a></p><p></p><p>To their credit, Microsoft was right on top of this. They have already pushed out an update to protect against this vulnerability. No update was required for the Mac version of Outlook:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-security-advisory-march-2023-monthly-rollup-av23-146" target="_blank">https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-security-advisory-march-2023-monthly-rollup-av23-146</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1928749, member: 190607"] Fortunately, this is a Microsoft-only vulnerability. It goes back to the difference in security philosophies between Windows and MacOS. Windows allows random code to run within certain applications, like their e-mail program. Apple has always avoided such things for security reasons. That's why malicious e-mails have always been a very large problem for Windows and no problem whatsoever on the Mac. [URL code="true"]https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-outlook-zero-day-vulnerability-allowing-ntlm-credential-theft[/URL] To their credit, Microsoft was right on top of this. They have already pushed out an update to protect against this vulnerability. No update was required for the Mac version of Outlook: [URL code="true"]https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/microsoft-security-advisory-march-2023-monthly-rollup-av23-146[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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