Monday, July 8, 2002

Mac OS X Software Update security issue uncovered

Jim Dalrymple

Apple has been using an automated system to update users' computers on Mac OS X since the software was first released over a year ago. According to the Bug Traq Security list, Mac OS X's implementation of the Software Update is vulnerable to attack.

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Day 21: Ignoring spacer images

Mark Pilgrim

Lots of people use transparent spacer images to control the layout of their weblog in visual browsers. You may use as many as you like, but you need to explicitly specify an empty alt attribute on each spacer image so that non-visual browsers know to ignore them. Radio users can take the day off. As of last Monday, Radio automatically generates empty alt attributes for all spacer images. (Thanks, Jake.)

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