Posts tagged quicktime 
The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life, the middle years
This week, we cover the second installment of our summarized history of Second Life and Linden Lab (or check out part one, if you missed it). From 2005, there's an impossible amount of material to cover, but there are some interesting stories lurking among it all. Join us as we work our way through ...
Linden Lab's Tom Hale announces Second Life support for media plug-ins
As a part of his keynote presentation today at this year's Second Life Community Convention, Linden Lab's Tom Hale has unveiled a new plug-in framework for the Second Life viewer. The Second Life viewer has hitherto been restricted to rendering media content that was supported either by its ...
Apple releases QuickTime patch to close exploit
Two weeks ago, Second Life users were warned of a flaw in QuickTime that allowed carefully crafted QuickTime datastreams and file headers to access their accounts through the viewer, and could potentially be used to steal items and Linden Dollars. The flaw was in QuickTime itself and was usable to ...
Second Life users warned of QuickTime flaw
Second Life users are being warned today (and the rest of you should be aware as well) that there's a security issue with Apple's QuickTime that allows an attacker to potentially crash or attempt to inject code into the software under which QuickTime is running. That would be your web-browser, or ...
