MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site.

The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people's MySpace profiles. The worm spread because of QuickTime's support for JavaScript code, experts have said.

Source: CNET News.com

This shows that the days of software companies turning their backs as they mutter, "security, that's a Microsoft problem", are long gone. If you've not waken up to the fact by now, you need to smell the coffee and realise that security is every software engineer's "problem".

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