Following of ‘the Month of Kernal Bugs’ and ‘the Month of Browser Bugs’, two researchers had planned for ‘the Month of Apple Bugs’ of January 2007. Infact, they had kick started off with the first security flaw on Apple QuickTime on New Year Day. The two researchers, Kevin Finisterre and another going by the initials LMH, had set up the website at Month of Apple Bugs.

According to them, they had discovered enough flaw which could allow them to announce one per day. Some of the flaws will be reported to the vendors before making it public, as according to the so-called “responsible disclosures”.

The project will target not only the MacOS, but the Apple products in general.

While this project had been welcomed by some, apparently some Mac User group (the Mac Observer) is rather unhappy about it.

Security fact or myth: While the MacOS platform had been considered more secured that Windows, many researchers believed that this is attributed to the more secure Unix kernal and MacOS’s less widespread adoption, rather than Apple’s security practices.

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