Twenty-Four Seven Security

On Monday Apple issued security patches to plug various security holes in its QuickTime media player software (which is now QuickTime 7.1.5), fixing at least eight separate and serious vulnerabilities.

The updates are for Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista versions. Mac users can get the latest version either from Apple or, if you already have the automatic update feature, it is already taken care of. Windows users with recent versions of QuickTime installed will already have Apple's Software Update program and should already be aware of the update. Otherwise, Windows users can download it here.