Tonight, Apple has released a patch and tech note at:
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11559
to avoid rumored problems of a Denial of Service attack from the Middle
East on New Years. This DoS attack takes advantage of a feature in Mac OS
9 (for any machine), and Mac OS 8.6 for iBooks, iMacs, and G4s.
If you have a high speed net connection, we encourage you to install the
patch on any machine that sits on the net.
You can read more about this at:
http://people.atl.mediaone.net/jacopeland/
Happy New Year,
MacTech Magazine