QuickTime needs more patches
Speaking of media players, the never-ending parade of patches for QuickTime goes on. Apple has issued another update. Ryan Naraine writes:
Apple has shipped a highly critical QuickTime software update with patches for at least five code execution vulnerabilities haunting Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X users.
With QuickTime 7.5, Apple corrects multiple buffer overflows, [...]
Media players galore
For better or worse, multimedia files have a large and growing presence on the Web. Unfortunately, there is no one format that everybody uses. Many sites use Adobe Flash for video because the files are more compact and almost everyone has a Flash plug-in for their browser or can easily download one. However, Windows Media [...]