After Apple had their record breaking 43 software problems patched in may, the company has squashed another 26 bugs yesterday. 17 of these were marked critical because they made it possible to execute code remotely on the affected systems. 7 bugs were in the ImageIO-module, 4 are related to the AFP server and 2 for the dyld- and gunzip components. The other bugs are several on applicational level, from fetchmail to telnet. Besides the leak solving, there’s also an update for Bluetooth so that auto generated keys can now be up to 8 in stead of the previous 6 characters.

Two hackers have succeeded in gaining control over a Macbook in 60 seconds though. They used at least two errors in the wireless communication. Although the demo was done with a Macbook, the hackers state there are comparable leaks like this in the wireless networkcards for Windows systems.

The fact that the two hackers want to publish a program which can scan for the chipset- and driverversions of wireless hardware points towards the by Intel patched errors. The Intel patch isn’t available for Apple’s OS though.

The reason the hackers chose a Macbook to show their knowledge is as they claim “The self-confidence in which Mac-users endulge themselves when it comes to security”

Source: Tweakers (Dutch) via Flexbeta