“Security researchers Pure Hacking recently announced that they discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Skype 5 for Mac. This vulnerability could allow a malicious user to send a specially crafted message to another Skype user, and then execute code an the latter Mac,” Intego reports.
Skype has “finally released an official update for Skype for Mac,” Intego reports. “This not only fixes the vulnerability we discussed, but also fixes some minor bugs, including a video freezing issue. You can update Skype by using the program’s built-in auto-updater. (Choose Skype > Check for Updates.)”
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MacDailyNews Take: Getting into the Microsoft swing of things already, huh, Skype?
We’d update, but we deleted Skype from all of our Macs earlier this morning.
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In hindsight, the horrendous Skype 5 UI on the Mac makes sense now – they were actively courting Microsoft! 😉
Ahahahahha 😀
They are just practicing their zero-day vulnerabilities so they’ll fit into the corporate culture when they get acquired by Microsoft.
My thoughts exactly. These two were made for each other.
FACETIME!
I deleted Skype 5 shortly after installation, and replaced it with the previous version. The Skype 5 UI is awful.
This just might ruin the deal with MS, perhaps they overbid by 4 billion in order to get that vulnerability.
Facetime only works between Macs, iPhones etc. what’t the alternative for calling PC’s?
Tried to update Skype and it says my software is up to date. Last time I updated was a month or so ago.
I’m pretty sure that was it. Check it and you should have 5. something.
Mine sasy that too although it hasn’t been patched. The latest version is v 5.1.0.935. Here’s the link…
http://blogs.skype.com/garage/2011/05/2nd_hotfix_for_skype_51_for_ma_release_notes.html