The Safari web-browser released and hacked within 24 hours
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After the Mac-hack contest announced by CanSecWest in April, Apple has been a popular target to find security flaws in. I should think that the more a brand sell, the more popular it is to hack…
However, the Safari-hack must’ve broken some kind of record as 3 minutes after the public beta of Apple’s Safari-browser for Microsoft Windows was released, self-proclaimed security-expert Aviv Raff found a serious bug in Safari which will make the browser crash and much possibly open up the browser for exploits.
Raff was clearly unhappy with Apple’s claim that Safari was designed to be “secure from day one” (he called this claim “pathetic”) but he said he wasn’t particularly going after Apple. “I don’t pick just on Apple,” he said. “I’ve posted about Microsoft and Mozilla issues too.”
It is not clear if this flaw exists on the Mac OS-version of Safari.
In other words; Do not think that you’ll be secure just because you opt-in for Apple OS X (or Ubuntu, or… yes, you get it). Apple, in this case, has been having security-issues with their products. An example of that is their multimedia player Quicktime, where serious vulnerabilities went for weeks without being patched.
Via PC World
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