{"id":40,"date":"2016-04-18T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.media-moon.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2019-12-08T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T03:48:16","slug":"homeland-security-apple-ends-support-for-quicktime-for-windows-new-vulnerabilities-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/homeland-security-apple-ends-support-for-quicktime-for-windows-new-vulnerabilities-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security: Apple Ends Support for QuickTime for Windows; New Vulnerabilities Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new alert has come through that warns of QuickTime vulnerabilities as Apple ends support for QuickTime.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/icon_qt_big.jpg\" alt=\"icon_qt_big\" width=\"207\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/icon_qt_big.jpg 284w, https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/icon_qt_big-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/icon_qt_big-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For details, see the U.S. Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s release at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/ncas\/alerts\/TA16-105A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/ncas\/alerts\/TA16-105A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, it appears the <em>only course of action to protect yourself is to uninstall QuickTime<\/em> as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security suggests:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;The only mitigation available is to uninstall QuickTime for Windows. Users can find instructions for uninstalling QuickTime for Windows on the Apple <a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT205771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uninstall QuickTime<\/a>\u00a0page.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new alert has come through that warns of QuickTime vulnerabilities as Apple ends support for QuickTime. For details, see the U.S. Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s release at: https:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/ncas\/alerts\/TA16-105A At this point, it appears the only course of action to protect yourself is to uninstall QuickTime as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security suggests: &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[155,101,175,36,103,173,25,35],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-security","tag-data-breach","tag-data-security","tag-it-support","tag-patch","tag-patch-management","tag-patches","tag-protect-your-data","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}