Unfortunately, Apple didn’t appear to realize that it was necessary to screen what it allows to access this data. Security researchers revealed that a simple web form can grab much of this data - first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address — no questions asked.
…security, as it is not possible to compare the vendors based on number of vulnerabilities alone. Apple’s supporters were quick to attack the report. AppleInsider writes:Not all vulnerabilities are equal: Secunia outlines five levels of criticality ranging from minor not critical issues to extremely critical problems that can result in remote exploits without any interaction from the user, and for which active exploits are already known to exist. Yet Secunia’s vulnerability report totals throw all these various types of flaws together into sums that are frequently used for meaningless comparison purposes.It’s ironic that almost simultaneous to the report another significant security flaw in Safari aired. Safari Apple’s browser software has oft seen releases so buggy to the point that they were unusable. Safari 5 certainly offered some improvements in that department, but it apparently doesn’t fair particularly better in the security department than past releases, including Safari 4 which had a flaw so severe…
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Major Flaw Found in Apple’s Safari Browser
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