Periodik Labs

From the security-is-a-rich-tapestry file: Macintouch readers are reporting that the Mac OS X Quark Xpress installer changes permissions of every file in the /Applications directory to world read/write/execute. Thus far there are no obvious exploits for this bug, but it does demonstrate that even non-security related applications can have security flaws. All software developers need to think about how to secure their applications, not just those in the security space.