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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0201 Safari for Windows Hacked in a Day:

Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday June 11 there was the release of the Safari Web browser. Just hours after Apple released its first Windows beta of Safari, a computer security researcher said he'd found a bug. In an interview, the researcher said that it took about three minutes of fussing to find the bug and that he hadn't tested the issue on Mac OS/X, so he couldn't say whether or not it affected Safari on Windows only. He said the bug causes the browser to crash and might be exploitable. The researcher 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."

(IDG News Service, 11JUN07)

Last Modified: Saturday, 16-Jun-2007 10:19:36 EDT