"Apple's scripting language for the Mac OS X operating system is both easy to use and a powerful way to automate system tasks--two attributes that empower malicious coders as well as legitimate developers, the security researcher behind the Month of Kernel Bugs, known as "L.M.H.", stated in a blog post.
The researcher--who has also promised to deliver an Apple bug every day for a month, likely to be January--demonstrated the utility of AppleScript for writing a mass-mailing computer virus by showing how portions of the LoveLetter virus could have been written in AppleScript....The researcher gave Apple high marks for usability, but failed them on security."
*www.securityfocus.com/brief/394
The researcher--who has also promised to deliver an Apple bug every day for a month, likely to be January--demonstrated the utility of AppleScript for writing a mass-mailing computer virus by showing how portions of the LoveLetter virus could have been written in AppleScript....The researcher gave Apple high marks for usability, but failed them on security."
*www.securityfocus.com/brief/394
